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FRANKLIN BALDWIN WILEY 



There, in red brick, which softening time defies, 
Stand square and stiff the Muses' factories. 

James Russell Lowell. 




CHARLES W. SEVER 
SEntijersitg iSooitstare 

CAMBRIDGE 

1895 



m 22 1895 



Copyright, i8gs, 
By Franklin Baldwin Wiley. 



A /I 7Hohts reserved. 



Graves & Henry, Printers, 
Cambridge. 



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PREFACE 



SINCE the publication of the last comprehensive 
guide-book to Harvard more than twelve years 
ago, the growth of the university has been greater 
than at any previous period of its existence. The 
number of students has increased from less than 
1400 to more than 3200 ; the amount of property 
held by the corporation has grown from a little 
more than $4,500,000 to almost $8,500,000; and 
nearly a score of new buildings or large additions 
to old ones have been erected. Owing to this rapid 
material development of the university, the informa- 
tion contained in the old guide-books has been left 
far behind, and the need of a new guide-book has 
become year by year more evident. To meet this 
need the present publication has been issued. The 
aim has been to make it as compact and at the 
same time as complete as possible. 

Visitors to Cambridge who choose to follow the 
route indicated in the text may take a continuous 
walk, with but little retracing of steps, from the 
Main Entrance Gate of the College Yard past all 
the university buildings and most of the chief points 
of interest in Old Cambridge to the new student 



IV PREFACE 

play-ground, the Soldiers' Field, on the other side 
of the Charles River. The length of this walk is 
about seven miles ; but it may be considerably short- 
ened by taking the electric cars from Waterhouse 
Street along Concord Avenue to the Observatory 
and the Botanic Garden, and from Elmwood Ave- 
nue along Mount Auburn Street to Longfellow 
Park and the Lowell Willows. A good walker may 
easily go over the whole distance in about four 
hours ; but it would be impossible, of course, to 
get any but the vaguest general impression of the 
university grounds and buildings or to see what is 
inside any of the halls or museums within that 
limit of time. The number of hours, indeed, or of 
days, that may be spent in obtaining anything like 
a thorough idea of the extent and character of the 
college property is limited only by the visitor's 
inclination or endurance. 

F. B. W. 
Cambridge^ Mass. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Cover Design by Louis Kossuth Ruttkay. 



PAGE 



Appleton Chapel . 87 

Astronomical Observatory, The . . . . -105 
Austin Hall (The Law School) . . . . . 107 

Beck Hall 47 

Boylston Hall . . . . . . . . 25 

Cambridge City Hall 5 

Cambridge-Street Gate, The 93 

Carey Building, The . . . . . . .99 

Christ Church ........ 82 

Class Day Tree, The . . . . . . . 87 

Claverly Hall . . . . . . . . 47 

Conant Hall ......... 97 

Dana House 31 

Dane Hall ;^^ 

Divinity Hall 95 

Divinity Library . . . . . . . -95 

Elmwood 64 

Fay House (Radcliffe College) 81 

Felton Hall 55 

Fogg Art Museum, The . . . . . . 89 

Gate, The Main Entrance .... Fro7ttispiece 

Gore Hall (The University Library) . . . . (y'j 

Grays Hall 25 

Gymnasium, The Hemenway ..... 103 



VI LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Harvard Hall 9 

Hasty Pudding Club House, The .... 29 

Holden Chapel ........ 87 

Hollis Hall 15 

Holmes Field, Part of 99 

Hohvorthy Hall . . . . . . . -19 

Holyoke House . . . . . . . 39 

Jefferson Physical Laboratory, The .... 105 

Lawrence Scientific School, The .... 103 

Law School, The ........ 107 

Library, The ........ 67 

Little's Block . 39 

Locker Building, The . . . . . . 109 

Longfellow's Home ....... 69 

Massachusetts Hall 9 

Matthews Hail ........ 33 

Memorial Hall ........ 41 

Museum, The Peabody . . . . . -71 

Museum, The University 71 

Old Mile Stone 84 

Perkins Hall 97 

President's House, The ...... 89 

Pump, The College ....... 13 

Riedesel House 62 

Sever Hall 35 

Society House • • • 53 

Statue of John Harvard, The ..... 93 

St. John's Memorial Chapel ...... 75 

Stoughton Hall 15 

Thayer Hall -19 

University Hall 23 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VU 

PAGE 

Wadsworth House 26 

Walter Hastings Hall 81 

Ware Hall 55 

Washington Elm, The ...... tj 

Waterhouse House ....... 59 

Weld Boat House, The 109 

Weld Hall 23 



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In vain the delving antiqtiary tries 
To find the tomb where generous Harvard lies : 
Here^ here^ his lasting monunieitt is founds 
Where eve^y spot is consecrated grotcnd ! 
O^er Stoughton'' s dust the crtimbliiig stone decays^ — 
Fast fade its lines of lapidary praise ... 
Still in yon walls his memory lives unspent^ 
Nor asks a braver^ nobler monumejit. 
Thns Hollis lives, and Holden, hojiored, praised, 
And good Sir Maithetu, in the halls they raised ; 
Thus live the worthies of these later times. 
Who shine in deeds, less brilliant, grouped in rhymes . . 
Those honored names that grace our later day, — 
Weld, Matthews, Sever, Thayer, Austin, Gray, 
Sears, Phillips, Lawrence, Hemenway, — to the list 
Add Sanders, Sibley, — all the Muse has ?fnssed . . . 
The zualls they reared the meijiories still retain 
That churchyard marbles try to keep in vain. 

Oliver Wendell Holmes. 



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Is this the way ? Ay, marry, is it. 

Shakespeare. 

EVERYBODY knows that to be a son of Har- 
vard is in itself good fortune," said George 
William Curtis in his speech at the commemoration 
in 1886 on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary 
of the founding of Harvard College. Next perhaps 
to the good fortune of being a son of Harvard is that 
of being a visitor to the university, and sharing, if 
only for a short time and in a slight degree, in its 
many inspiring associations and ennobling influ- 
ences. For anyone who is staying in Boston it is 
easy 

To reach the College Grounds in Cambridge 
either by driving out in a carriage, or by going to 
Park Square, to the northwest corner of Tremont 
and Park Streets, to Scollay Square, or to Bowdoin 
Square, and taking any electric car marked " Har- 
vard Square," " North Avenue," '^\rlington," '' Mt. 
Auburn," " Watertown," or '' Newton." Cars bear- 
ing these signs leave the points mentioned at inter- 
vals of a few minutes throughout the day and 



4 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

evening, and arrive at Harvard Square after a ride 
of about half an hour. In going out by way of 
Massachusetts Avenue the 

Cambridge City Hall, a handsome building 
of light stone, in the Gothic style of architecture, 
with dark stone trimmings and a tall, pointed clock 
tower, may be seen on a terraced elevation upon 
the right, between Inman and Bigelow Streets, soon 
after passing through Central Square. The struc- 
ture is the gift of Frederick H. Rindge, a former 
citizen of Cambridge, now living in Los Angeles, 
Cal. The 

Cambridge Public Library, another attrac- 
tive building of light stone, Romanesque in style, 
with a conical, red-tiled tower, which the Broadway 
cars pass on the right between Trowbridge and 
Irving Streets, is likewise the gift of Mr. Rindge, 
who also presented to the city the land on which 
stands the fine building of the English High School 
on Broadway, to the right of the library, and the 
two buildings of the Manual Training School, one 
fronting on Irving Street and the other on Felton 
Street, just beyond the library. 

On leaving the car at Harvard Square, a few 
steps northward along Massachusetts Avenue bring 
one to the 

Main Entrance Gate to the Yard, as the col- 
lege grounds bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, 
Quincy Street, Broadway, and Cambridge Street 
are called. This gate, which was completed in 




CAMBRIDGE CITY HALL 



6 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

1890, is popularly known as the "New Gate" or 
the " Harvard Gate." On the right wall is a tablet 
thus inscribed : "After God had carried vs safe to 
New England and wee had bvilded ovr hovses, 
provided necessaries for ovr liveli hood, reard con- 
venient places for Gods vv^orship, and setled the 
civill government, one of the next things we longed 
for and looked after was to advance learning and 
perpetvate it to posterity, dreading to leave an illit- 
erate ministery to the chvrches when ovr present 
ministers shall lie in the dvst. — New Englands 
First Frvits." 

The tablet on the left wall bears the following 
inscription : " By the General Covrt of Massa- 
CHVSETTS Bay, 28 October, 1636, agreed to give 
400^ towards a schoale or coUedge, whereof 200^ 
to bee paid the next yeare & 200^ when the worke 
is finished, & the next covrt to appoint w^heare & 
w* bvilding : 15 November, 1637, ^^^^ colledg is 
ordered to bee at Newetowne : 2 May, 1638, it is 
ordered that Newetowne shall henceforward be 
called Cambrige : 13 March, 1638-9, it is ordered 
that the Colledge agreed vpon formerly to bee bvilt 
at Cambridg shalbee called Harvard Colledge." 
The reason for this last order of the General Court 
was the fact that a legacy had been left to the 
struggling young college by the Rev. John Harvard, 
formerly of Emmanuel College in Cambridge, Eng- 
land, " a godly gentleman and a lover of learning," 
who died in Charlestown in 1638. He bequeathed 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 7 

to the new institution of learning one-half of his 
estate, amounting to about ^780 ($3900), and his 
library of 260 volumes. 

The first college building, a rough wooden house 
of small size, was erected on a part of the land 
then known as the Ox Pasture, near or on the site 
of Grays Hall. It had a little more than an acre 
of ground and about thirty apple trees round it. 
Nathaniel Eaton, under whose supervision it was 
built, was chosen " Professor of said school " in 
1637. Cambridge had been settled about six years 
before, in 1631, and its primitive dwellings were 
between the southern boundary of the Ox Pasture, 
known as Braintree Street, now Massachusetts Ave- 
nue, and the Charles River. In 1639 "Professor" 
Eaton was discharged for maltreating his usher, 
"one Nathaniel Briscoe, a gentleman born," and 
serving bad food to the students. The first presi- 
dent of the college was Henry Dunster, who was 
appointed in 1640."^ 

"And who was on the Catalogue 
When college was begun ? " 

asks Oliver Wendell Holmes in his " Song for the 
Centennial Celebration" in 1836, and answers: 

"Two nephews of the President, 
And t/ie Professor's son ... 
Lord ! how the seniors knocked about 
The freshman class of one ! " 



^ See Appendix (I) for a list of the presidents of Harvard. 



8 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

There are now 3290 students in the university, of 
whom about 1700 are in the college, and the 
freshman class numbers 400.^ 

On the front of the main pillars of the gate are 
the seals of Harvard College and the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts, and in the iron-w^ork 
above the gateway is a cross encircled by a laurel 
wreath, beneath which are the dates of the found- 
ing of the college and the erection of the gate. 
The round stones on the pillars were brought from 
Yorkshire, England. A Latin inscription on the 
back of the right-hand pillar records the fact that 
the gate is the gift of Samuel Johnston, of Chicago. 
On the right after going through the gateway is 

Massachusetts Hall, which was built in 1720, 
and is the oldest of the college buildings now 
standing. It was erected by the Province as a 
dormitory at an expense of ^3500 ($17,500). In 
1775-76 it was turned into barracks for the Ameri- 
can soldiers, and in 1870 it was altered inside, and 
now contains two large lecture halls and the office 
of the college janitor. Its thick, ivy-clad walls of 
dull red brick, heavy interior cross-beams, and 
quaint windows, with their little panes, make it one 
of the most picturesque of the old college halls. 
The alumni hold their annual meeting at Com- 
mencement in this building. Oooosite to it, on the 
left, stands 



* See Appendix (II) for a table giving in detail the number of officers, 
teachers, and students connected with the university. 




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Harvard Hall, the second building of this 
name, also of red brick, but with red sandstone 
trimmings and of less severely simple architecture 
than the older hall that faces it. The first Harvard 
Hall, begun in 1672 and completed about 1678, 
was destroyed by fire in January, 1764. The 
flames were discovered near midnight while a 
heavy snowstorm was raging. Owing to a small- 
pox epidemic in Boston, the Massachusetts General 
Court was holding its sessions in the college hall 
at this time, and when the flames broke out the 
town engine was hurried to the spot attended, ac- 
cording to an account written just afterward, by 
" the gentlemen of the General Court, among them 
His Excellency, Governor Bernard." They were 
all ''very active," the narrative declares, in prevent- 
ing the fire from spreading to the adjoining build- 
ings, which were at one time in great danger. All 
but one of the 260 volumes of John Harvard's 
library, together with nearly 5000 other books, as 
well as portraits, curiosities, and apparatus, were 
lost in this fire, which was the most disastrous one 
in the history of the college. The new hall was 
built on the same site by the Province in 1765-66 
at a cost of $23,000. In early days it contained 
the chapel, the library, and the dining-hall, and in 
Revolutionary times it was occupied by a detach- 
ment of the American army. Washington was 
received within its walls in 1789, and in 181 7 Pres- 
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THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK ii 

special libraries in history and the classics, and is 
also used as a recitation hall. In the belfry of this 
building hangs the 

College Bell, which for many years has rung 
at the hours for getting up, attending morning 
prayers, and going to lectures and recitations, and 
for the weekly vesper service on Thursday after- 
noon and the chapel service on Sujiday evening. 
Long ago it used to call the students to prayers at 
6 A. M., and various efforts were made to prevent it 
from ringing. Several times the tongue was stolen ; 
once a large turkey was tied to it, but the janitor 
discovered the gift in time to remove it and ring 
the bell at the regular hour; in 1 86 1 a student 
jumped from the roof of Hollis to that of Harvard 
with a pail of tar with which to silence the bell ; 
one bitter cold night it was turned up and filled 
with water that quickly froze, and that time it did 
not ring as usual in the morning ; on still another 
occasion an attempt was made to blow it up with 
gunpowder, and the student, on being detected, ran 
down the roof and jumped across to Hollis. By 
going round the end of Harvard Hall into the 
Quadrangle, or " the Quad.," as it is commonly 
called, which, with its network of intersecting paths 
and green roof of overarching elms, opens on either 
hand at this point, the visitor may see how narrow 
the space is between Harvard Hall and 

Hollis Hall, which is the next red brick build- 
ing on the left, facing the Quadrangle. This dor- 



12 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

mitory, containing thirty-two rooms, was built in 
1763 by the Province at a cost of ;^3ooo, and 
named in honor of Thomas Hollis, a London mer- 
chant, and six members of his family, all of whom 
were benefactors of the college. The hall was 
struck by lightning in 1768 and damaged by fire in 
1876. In 1775 the students had to give up their 
rooms to the Provincial Congress, which took pos- 
session of the college buildings. Many of these 
rooms were once the home of former college socie- 
ties, like the Medical Faculty, or " Med. Fac," 
which gave mock lectures in Room 13, and con- 
ferred one of its , degrees on the Czar of Russia, 
who acknowledged the supposed compliment by 
sending the society a case of handsome instru- 
ments. Among the distinguished men who have 
occupied rooms in this hall are Ralph Waldo Emer- 
son, Nos. 5, 15, and 20 ; William Hickling Prescott, 
Nos. 6 and 11 ; Wendell Phillips, Nos. 11, 16, and 
18; Charles Sumner, No. 17; Edward Everett, 
Nos. 20 and 24; and Henry David Thoreau, Nos. 
20, 23, 31, and 32. In front of the north entry of 
Hollis, under the branches of a towering elm, 
is the 

College Pump, in warm weather one of the 
hardest worked of all the college belongings. The 
water that it supplies is regarded by many of the 
students and townspeople as the coldest, purest, and 
sweetest in Cambridge. William Roscoe Thayer, 
the editor of the Harvard Graduates' Magazine, 



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14 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

when an undergraduate wrote these lines to the old 
pump : 

'' Your wooden arm you hold outstretched 
To shake with passers-by ; 
Your friends are always thirsty ones, 

But you are never dry. 
A hundred Classes at your lips 

Have drunk, and passed away ; 
And where their fathers quenched their thirst 
The sons now quench to-day." 

To the left after passing Hollis Hall, and a few 
feet in the rear, may be seen 

Holden Chapel, a little brick building, which 
was completed in 1744, and named after the family 
of Samuel Holden, M. P., a governor of the 
Bank of England, whose wife and daughters gave 
the college ^400 for a chapel. The Holden coat-of- 
arms is on the western gable-end of the building. 
After being used as a chapel for twenty-five years, 
then as a laboratory and anatomical museum, next 
as a lecture hall, and later on as a society house, 
the building is now occupied by the department of 
elocution. Within the space enclosed by Holden 
Chapel and Hollis and Harvard Halls is the 

Class Day Tree, a noble elm still showing 
where the broad bands of roses and other flowers 
have girdled it each successive year since 18 15 on 
the bright June day when the Seniors hold the clos- 
ing festivities of their college course. In the 
morning, after attending prayers, the members of 
the graduating class, clad in cap and gown, assem- 




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STOUGHTON HALL 



i6 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

ble before Holworthy Hall, and, headed by a band 
and the class-day marshals, march to Sanders 
Theatre, where the class oration, the class poem, 
and the ivy oration are delivered, and the class ode 
is sung to the air of " Fair Harvard." A few 
" spreads " are given before these exercises begin, 
but the large club and society " spreads " and most 
of the private ones are held in the afternoon and 
early evening. There is music in the Yard and 
dancing in Memorial Hall during the afternoon. 
The Quadrangle and the surrounding buildings are 
thronged with people, mostly undergraduates and 
friends of the Seniors, including numbers of bril- 
liantly dressed young girls and fashionably attired 
young men, a majority of whom were gathered in 
Sanders Theatre at the literary exercises of the 
morning, and are looking forward with eager impa- 
tience to the picturesque proceedings at the Tree. 
At about five o'clock the members of the class, now 
roughly clad, reassemble in front of Holworthy, 
and march round the Yard, stopping before each 
building to cheer it for the last time. 

" Under the leafy roof, through the solemn aisles of the elm 

trees, 
Pensive and silent as they, the column circles the Yard : 
Past University's steps, with the youngsters — God bless 

them ! — all cheering ; 
On, past Holworthy's dear, simple, serene old v^ralls ; 
On, past the time-worn bricks of gabled Stoughton and 

Hollis ; 
Past Harvard's fateful bell, for them forevermore dumb ; 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 17 

Past Massachusetts and Weld. — 'Ah, brother, these were 

our temples. 
Where shall we find such others ? ' * Brother, never again.' '* 

Meanwhile the upper rear windows of Harvard 
and Hollis and the tiers of temporary seats enclos- 
ing the space round the Tree have become densely 
packed with spectators, and the graduates and 
members of the lower classes have filed in and 
taken their places on the turf in front of the seats. 
Finally the Seniors arrive and are cheered by each 
class in turn, and then, after themselves cheering 
the president of the university, the ladies, " Billy 
the Postman," "John the Orange-Man," and other 
favorites, the class song is sung, and at its close 
the wild evolutions of all the classes round the 
Tree begin. These grow more and more violent 
and exciting. Suddenly, at a given signal, the 
Seniors rush upon the Tree, and a sharp, breathless 
scramble for the flowers ensues. In describing 
this scene in "April Hopes," William Dean Howells 
WTites : " Yells, cries, and clappings of hands came 
from the other students and the spectators in the 
seats, involuntarily dying away almost to silence as 
some stronger or wilfuller aspirant held his own on 
the heads and shoulders of the others, or was 
stayed there by his friends among them till he 
could make sure of a handful of the flowers." 
"This contest," says James Russell Lowell, "is 
perhaps the most striking single analogy between 
the life of college and that of the larger world 



15 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

that is to follow it." In the evening the president 
holds a reception and there is dancing in Memorial 
Hall and the Gymnasium. The Quadrangle is 
illuminated by thousands of twinkling colored 
lanterns, which, with the gayly-dressed, shifting 
crowds moving about beneath the great elms, and 
the singing of college songs by the Glee Club, turn 
the Yard into a fairy-land. 

Next to Hollis Hall, and in line with it, is 
Stoughton Hall, of the same size and style of 
architecture as Hollis, and containing the same 
number of rooms. It was built in 1805, and cost 
nearly $24,000, of which $18,600 were secured by a 
lottery. An earlier Stoughton Hall, which was 
erected in 1700 by Lieutenant-Governor William 
Stoughton, and was torn down in 1780, stood at a 
right angle to Massachusetts and Harvard Halls, 
opposite the main entrance to the Yard. It also 
was used by the Provincial Congress and by the 
American soldiers at the beginning of the Revolu- 
tion. The present building once contained the col- 
lege reading-room and the quarters of the Hasty 
Pudding Club. Among its occupants have been 
Horatio Greenough, No. 2 ; Josiah Quincy, No. 3 ; 
Charles Sumner, No. 12 ; Edward Everett Hale, 
No. 22 ; Edward Everett, No. 23 ; and Oliver Wen- 
dell Holmes, No. 31. At a right angle to Stough- 
ton, and extending across the north end of the 
Quadrangle, stands 




HOLWURTHY HALL 





THAYER HALL 



20 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

Holworthy Hall, built in 1812 with the pro- 
ceeds of a lottery and a legacy of ^1000 left to the 
college in 1678 by Sir Matthew Holworthy, a mer- 
chant of Hackney, England, after whom the hall 
was named. It contains twenty-four suites of two 
rooms each, was for many years occupied by Seniors 
only, and is regarded as the most desirable of the 
old dormitories. In i860 Room 12 was visited by 
the Prince of Wales, and in 187 1 by the Grand 
Duke Alexis of Russia, both of whom presented 
their photographs to be hung on its walls. As 
Lloyd McKim Garrison says in his '^ Ballads of 
Harvard '': 

" The perfume of Time clings to Holworthy Hall. 
Here in secret grew many a desperate plan ; 
Here the Med. Fac. conspired, the Puddi7tg began. . . . 
Here many a ' Spread ' on a Class Day has been ; 
'Neath these windows they danced Minuets on the Green. . . 
Here dreamed (noble dreams !) in this old window-seat 
Harvard's poet .... Here he, too, was bred 
Who died * with his niggers ' on Wagner's red wall — 
The fair student soldier — in Holworthy Hall." 

Turning to the right after passing Holworthy, the 
first building of the three on the east side of the 
Quadrangle is 

Thayer Hall, a dormitory containing sixty-eight 
suites of rooms, built in 1870 at an expense of $100,- 
000 by Nathaniel Thayer of Boston, in memory of 
his father, the Rev. Nathaniel Thayer, D. D., and 
his brother, John Eliot Thayer. The next building is 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 21 

University Hall, erected in 1815 of white 
Chelmsford granite at a cost of $65,000, of which 
$53,000 were given by the State. It originally con- 
tained the college chapel and the Commons or din- 
ing-hall, and the basement was used as a kitchen. 
For many years all the Commencement exercises 
were held under its roof. Here President Monroe 
was entertained in 18 17, General Worth and the 
West Point cadets in 182 1, Lafayette in 1824, and 
President Jackson and Martin Van Buren in 1833. 
The Commons were discontinued in 1842 and the 
chapel was divided into lecture rooms in 1867. It 
now contains several lecture rooms and special 
libraries in United States history and political econ- 
omy, and the offices of the president, dean, secre- 
tary, recorder, publication agent, and university 
printer. Next to University on the south stands 

Weld Hall, a handsome dormitory in the Eliz- 
abethan style of architecture containing fifty-four 
suites of rooms. It was built in 1872 by W. F. 
W^eld in memory of his brother, Stephen Minot 
Weld, as the tablets in the outer entry tell. A few 
paces beyond Weld, facing its southern end and a 
little outside of the Quadrangle, is 

Boylston Hall, a solid looking structure of 
gray Rockport granite, built for a chemical labora- 
tory in 1857 on the site of the old homestead where 
several ministers of Cambridge and a president and 
two professors of Harvard lived at different times, 
as recorded on the tablets in the rear wall. The 



22 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

total cost of the building, which was enlarged in 
187 1, was $70,000, part of which came from a fund 
left for the purpose by Ward Nicholas Boylston, of 
Boston. Across the south end of the Quadrangle, 
to the left on re-entering it, stands 

Grays Hall, a dormitory containing fifty-two 
rooms, built of brick, with granite trimmings and 
three tablets high up on the front inscribed with the 
college seal and the dates of the founding of the 
college, 1636, and the erection of the hall, 1863. 
It was built by the college and named after Francis 
Calley Gray, John Chipman Gray, and William 
Gray, all liberal benefactors of the university. 
To the right after passing Grays, and opposite 
Weld, is 

Matthews Hall, a large dormitory in the Gothic 
style of architecture, with sixty suites of handsome 
rooms, built in 1872 at an expense of nearly $120- 
000 by Nathan Matthews, of Boston. On its site 
probably stood the " small brick building, where 
some Indians did study," known as the Indian Col- 
lege, erected in 1666 and removed in 17 10. In 1676, 
after one Indian, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, had 
taken a degree and died, it was converted into a 
printing house. One-half of the net annual income 
of Matthews is paid in scholarships to students, 
those who intend to study for the Episcopal minis- 
try or who are the sons of Episcopal clergymen 
being preferred. To the left, as one passes by the 
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Dane Hall, built for a law school in 1832 at a 
cost of $7000 advanced to the college by Nathan 
Dane, of Beverly, Mass. The original structure was 
enlarged in 1845 and in 189 1. It was occupied by 
the law department until 1883, and now contains 
several large lecture rooms and the store of the 
Harvard Co-operative Society, a university organ- 
ization, formed in 1882 for the sale of station- 
ery, books, clothing, athletic goods, and furniture, at 
as near cost as possible. Across the street from 
Dane Hall, extending to the corner of Church 
Street, is 

College House, a long brick dormitory contain- 
ing seventy rooms in the upper stories and a num- 
ber of stores on the ground floor, built by the col- 
lege in 1832, and enlarged in 1846, in i860, and in 
187 1. Walking to the left past Dane Hall, with 
Harvard Square on the right, we can see, across the 
w^ay, on the east corner of Dunster Street, 

Little's Block, a students' dormitory of brick 
with sandstone trimmings, containing thirty-two 
suites of rooms. It was built by private enterprise 
in 1854, enlarged in 1869, remodelled in 1877, and 
further improved in 1893. Its ground floor is occu- 
pied by several stores, one of which is the 

University Bookstore, established near the 
beginning of the century for the purpose of supply- 
ing students with classical text-books. Here the 
University Catalogue was formerly published. The 
present proprietor is Charles W. Sever, who has 




BOYLSTOX HALL 




GRAYS HALL 



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been at the head of the business since 1859 and the 
sole proprietor of it since 1871. The building at 
the corner of Holyoke Street, adjoining Little's 
Block, is 

Holyoke House, a dormitory in the Roman- 
esque style of architecture, built of brick with free- 
stone trimmings and containing stores on the ground 
floor and forty-seven suites of rooms on the four 
upper floors. It was erected in 187 1 by the uni- 
versity at an expense of $120,000. Opposite Holy- 
oke, within the Yard to the left, stands 

V/adsworth House, formerly known as the 
Old President's House, a two-story wooden struct- 
ure, with a gambrel roof and dormer windows, built 
in 1726 and, next to Massachusetts, the oldest of 

the college build- 
ings still stand- 
ing. It was 
erec ed at a cost 
of ^1000, w^hich 
w^ere given by 
the Massachu- 
setts General 
Court for a 
house for " the 
Reverend the 
President of 
Harvard Col- 
lege." President Wadsworth was its first occupant, 
and his successors lived in it until 1849. Washing- 




WADSWORTH HOUSE 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 27 

ton occupied it for a while in 1775 before establish- 
ing his headquarters in Craigie House. The rooms 
on the first floor at the left of the front entrance are 
now used by the preachers to the university, and the 
rest of the house is rented to students. In the brick 
addition at the rear is the bursar's office. While 
crossing Massachusetts Avenue at this point to 
Holyoke Street, a view of the buildings between 
Holyoke and Linden Streets may be obtained. The 
first building on the corner of Holyoke Street, op- 
posite Holyoke House, is 

Manter Block, a small four-story brick dormi- 
tory, built in 1882 as a private investment and con- 
taining stores on the first floor and eight suites of 
rooms above. The next building is the 

Porcellian Club House, a handsome three and 
one-half story structure of mottled brick, erected by 
the club in 1890 at a cost of more than $30,000. 
The first story is rented for stores. The date of the 
origin of the club is uncertain. Its reeords extend 
back to 1 79 1. Its members number fifteen each 
year and are drawn from among the richest men in 
college. The club house is luxuriously furnished, 
but its chief attraction is the fine library for which 
the club has always been noted. Among the famous 
men who have been members of this club are 
Washington Allston, William Ellery Channing, Ed- 
ward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Rus- 
sell Lowell, Wendell Phillips, and Charles Sumner. 



28 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

Between the home of the Porcellian Club and Lin- 
den Street stands 

Hilton Block, a brick dormitory built by private 
enterprise in 1870, enlarged in 1882 and in 1885, 
and containing stores on the first floor and fifty 
rooms for students in the upper stories. Turning 
down Holyoke Street, we pass by the 

Hasty Pudding Club House, an attractive 
two-story building of brick, standing on the east 
side of the street almost midway between Massa- 
chusetts Avenue and Mt. Auburn Street. It was 
completed in 1888, and contains a reading-room 
and a card-room on the first floor and a handsome 
library on the second floor, in which hangs a large 
stuffed alligator, one of the emblems of the club. A 
theatre, decorated in colonial style and with a seat- 
ing capacity of about 450 persons, takes up the rear 
of the building. The club was founded in 1795, 
and the first play, " Bombastes Furioso,'' was per- 
formed in 1844. In the century of its existence the 
club has had about 4000 members, including many 
college officials and professors, congressmen, gov- 
ernors, judges, United States senators and cabinet 
officers, and other distinguished men, among whom 
may be mentioned George Bancroft, Phillips Brooks, 
Edward Everett, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James 
Russell Lowell, Wendell Phillips, William Hickling 
Prescott, Charles Sumner, and Robert Charles Win- 
throp. Continuing down Holyoke Street and turn- 
ing to the left along Mt. Auburn Street, we come to 



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30 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

Claverly Hall, one of the largest and handsom- 
est of the new dormitories, standing on the north- 
west corner of Mt. Auburn and Linden Streets. It 
w^as completed in 1893 for a private owner. The 
first story is of Indiana limestone and the four upper 
stories are of brick with limestone trimmings. The 
building contains fifty-seven suites of rooms ; one of 
its features is a large marble swimming tank. Go- 
ing round the corner of Claverly and up Linden 
Street back to Massachusetts Avenue, we pass by 
the ofiice of one of the 

College Publications, The Harvard Crimson^ 
a newspaper managed and edited by students and 
published daily, except on Sundays and holidays, 
throughout the college year. The Crimson is the 
official newspaper of the college. The Daily News 
is a rival paper. The students also issue The Har- 
vard La7npoo7i^ a humorous illustrated publication, 
and 7he Harvard Advocate^ a periodical of light 
literature, both of which appear every two weeks, 
and The Harvard Monthly^ a magazine containing 
the graver efforts of the students and published 
once a month in term-time. Proceeding to the right 
along Massachusetts Avenue, we pass through 
Quincy Square, on the east side of which, between 
the avenue and Harvard Street, stands 

Beck Hall, a dormitory built by private means 
in 1876 at a cost of nearly $100,000 and named 
after Charles Beck, for many years university pro- 
fessor of Latin. It is constructed of red brick with 



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31 



trimmings of black brick, tiles and brown stone, and 
contains twenty-eight suites of rooms. To the right, 
on the south side of Quincy Square, is 

Quincy Hall, another private dormitory, erected 
in 1892 of red brick with brown stone trimmings, 
and containing twelve suites of rooms. Continuing 
straight on along Harvard Street past Beck and the 
spacious gray stone edifice of the Old Cambridge 
Baptist Church a short distance. 

Ware Hall is seen to the left on the northeast 
corner of Harvard and Ware Streets. It was built 
by private enterprise in 1894. The first story is of 
light yellow^ brick, and the four upper stories of red 
brick, with trimmings of yellow brick and Indiana 
limestone. It has fifty-five suites of rooms, and is 

the only college 
dormitory pro- 
vided with a 
passenger eleva- 
tor. Going back 
past the Baptist 
Church and 
Beck Hall and 
turning to the 
right up Quincy 
Street, we pass 
by 




DANA HOUSE 



Dana House, a two and one-half story frame 
dwelling within the Yard, on the northwest corner 
of Harvard and Quincy Streets. It was built in 



32 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

1823 by the family of Chief Justice Francis Dana. 
In 1839 ^h^ cupola and a revolving dome for a 
reflecting telescope were added. This was the first 
step toward establishing an observatory at Harvard. 
For thirty years this house was the home of the 
Rev. Andrew Preston Peabody, D. D., Plummer 
professor of Christian morals and preacher to the 
university. It is now occupied by Professor George 
Herbert Palmer and his wife, Mrs. Alice Freeman 
Palmer, formerly the president of Wellesley College. 
The next building on the same side of Quincy 
Street is the 

President's House, a low brick dwelling, with 
a mansard roof, standing on the crest of an eleva- 
tion that slopes away toward Boylston and Gore 
Halls in the rear. The house was built in i860 
with the principal and interest of $10,000 which 
Peter C. Brooks gave to the college in 1846 for 
this purpose. President Charles William Eliot has 
lived here since he became the head of the univer- 
sity in 1869. Almost opposite, on the right side of 
Quincy Street, is tue Colonial Club house, an 
enlarged frame mansion, painted yellow with white 
trimmings, formerly the home or Henry James, the 
father of the novelist of that name. The next 
dwelling to the left beyond the President's House 
is the home of Professor Nathaniel Southgate 
Shaler. Passing by it and turning to the left 
through the first gateway leading into the Yard, we 
come to 




MATTHEWS HALL 




DANE HALL 



34 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

Sever Hall, a massive building of dark red 
brick, with ornamentations of moulded brick and 
tiles, and a red tiled roof with quadruple dormer 
windows. It was built in 1880 as a recitation hall, 
and named after Mrs. Anne E. P. Sever, who left 
$100,000 to the college. The special libraries in 
mathematics, English, French, German, Sanskrit, 
Semitic, and the Romance languages are in this 
building. Permanent and temporary collections of 
pictures, coins, and other interesting objects are to 
be found in some of the rooms, and lectures open 
to the public are frequently given in Room 1 1 on 
the first floor, familiarly designated as " Sever 11.'*' 
The architect of this great structure was Henry 
Hobson Richardson. *^ His interest in building it 
was very deep," writes Phillips Brooks, *' and he 
put into his first work for his college all his best 
thought and power. From the day when it was fin- 
ished it seemed to possess the Yard, as all his 
buildings took possession of the earth they stood 
on. . . . Sever Hall makes the other modern 
buildings of the College Yard seem like visitors 
who came and who will go again — for which one 
would not grieve. This serious and cheerful struc- 
ture one hardly thinks of as having ever come, and 
one rejoices to believe that it will stay forever.-' 
The gray stone building to the left on leaving 
Sever is 

Gore Hall, in which the university library is 
housed. This building was erected in 1841 with 



36 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

the proceeds of a bequest of $70,000 by Christopher 
Gore, enlarged at a cost of $90,000 in 1877, and 
partly altered and improved in 1895. It is con- 
structed of Quincy granite in a modification of the 
Gothic style of architecture of the fourteenth cen- 
tury employed in the chapel of King's College at 
Cambridge in England. The entrance is on the 
south side beneath a gilt cross that was brought 
from Louisburg in 1745, after the surrender of the 
city to Sir William Pepperell and the Massachusetts 
troops. The library, which anyone may use for 
consultation, now numbers more than 448,000 
bound volumes, of w^hich about 325,000 are in 
Gore Hall, and the collection of pamphlets and 
maps is estimated to be about as large. Turning 
to the right, past the west end of Gore Hall, and 
keeping straight on across the Yard back of Weld, 
University, and Thayer, a fine view of the front of 
Sever is obtained. In the rear of Thayer stands 
Appleton Chapel, so named for Samuel 
Appleton, of Boston, who provided that one-quarter 
of his bequest of $200,000 to the college should be 
spent in erecting a chapel. The building, which is 
of light Nova Scotia sandstone, was completed in 
1858. Its interior has since been considerably 
altered, improved, and redecorated. On every 
week-day morning in term-time, except holidays, a 
short service is held between 8.45 and 9 o'clock, 
attendance at which is voluntary. Services are 
also held on every Sunday evening in term-time at 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 37 

7.30 o'clock, and vespers at 5 o'clock on every 
Thursday afternoon from Thanksgiving to Easter, 
except in the Christmas recess. These services are 
usually in charge either of the Plummer professor 
of Christian morals, or of one of the five preachers 
to the university. The chapel choir, composed of 
Harvard students and Cambridge boys, is noted 
for its fine singing. 

In the old days, when prayers were held in 
Holden Chapel or in Harvard or University Halls, 
unusual occurrences sometimes interrupted the ser- 
vice. On one occasion, in President Kirkland's 
day, some "pull-crackers," which had been fastened 
at either end to the covers of the Bible, exploded 
w^hen he opened the book. At another time, in the 
days when every one about the college w^as required 
to talk in Latin, a dog strayed into prayers, and it 
is related that the honored president of the univer- 
sity, w'ho was conducting the service, called out 
angrily, "Exclude canem et — et — shut the door!" 
Long ago a timid tutor named Ashur Ware some- 
times officiated at the service, and then all the 
students suddenly became sufferers from incipient 
colds, and sneezed after this fashion : "A-shur, 
a-shur, a-shur-ware." One winter's morning in 
182 1, after about all the students had gone to Bos- 
ton the previous evening to hear Edmund Kean, 
and had been storm-bound by a snowfall of two 
feet in depth, there were only three students at 
prayers. At one time, about 1734, tardiness at 



38 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

prayers meant a fine of one penny, and absence 
from them a fine of twopence. The list in which 
these offences w^ere enumerated included fifty 
others, all punishable wdth fines ranging from a 
penny to £2 los. The whole system was most 
amusing. " We can picture to ourselves," says one 
writer, ^' the mischief-loving student going through 
a mental calculation in order to ascertain in what 
way a given sum of money invested in fines would 
yield the greatest return in fun : whether he should 
get drunk, or thrash a fellow-student, or lie to the 
Dean, or cut a recitation, or swap jack-knives with- 
out the consent of the proctor, — all these offences 
being punishable by the same fine, one shilling and 
sixpence." Some of the more serious offences 
were punished with a cuffing or a flogging adminis- 
tered by the president. 

On leaving the chapel and passing round by the 
north end of Thayer, we see the 

Cambridge-Street Gate, a brick and iron 
structure erected in 1891 with funds given to the 
college for this purpose by George von L. Meyer, 
of Boston. On the back of one of the main pillars 
is an inscription to this effect, and on the back of 
the other the college seal and motto, "Veritas," 
Turning to the right after passing through the gate- 
way, a few steps bring one to the 

Fogg Art Museum, a light stone, fire-proof 
building completed in 1895 at a cost of $150,000, 
and comprising art galleries in front and a semi- 




little's block 




HOLYOKE HOUSE 



40 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

circular lecture-room in the rear. The endowment 
of $70,000, as well as the money for the building, 
was the gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Fogg, of New York. 
The architect was Richard Morris Hunt. Directly 
opposite the Art Museum, in the green ^' Delta " 
between Cambridge and Kirkland Streets, is the 

Statue of John Harvard, an ideal seated 
figure in bronze, designed by Daniel C. French, 
and given to the college by Samuel J. Bridge in 
1884. No likeness of John Harvard is known to 
be in existence. On the broad eastern end of the 
" Delta " rises 

Memorial Hall, a building of noble propor- 
tions reared by the alumni of the university in 
memory of the sons of Harvard who laid down 
their lives for their country in the Civil War. The^ 
hall is constructed of red brick with trimmings 
of buff Nova Scotia sandstone, and consists of a 
memorial transept and a large dining-hall, begun in 
1870 and dedicated in 1874, and Sanders Theatre, 
completed in 1876 and named for Charles Sanders, 
who left to the college the sum of $60,000, which 
was devoted to this purpose. The cost of the 
entire structure was about $500,000. The great 
tower above the transept, rising '' four-square to all 
the winds that blow," is 200 feet high, and forms a 
landmark visible for miles about the surrounding 
country. On the western end of the hall is a Latin 
inscription telling when the building was erected, 
above which are the words, " hvmanitas virtvs 



42 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

PiETAS " (Learning, Manhood, Loyalty). On either 
end of the cloister porch below are the seals of 
Massachusetts and Harvard, and in a niche at the 
back of the porch is a bust of President Walker. 
Over the north entrance to the transept is inscribed, 

^' VT VIRTVTIS EXEMPLA SEMPER APVD VOS VIGEANT 

SODALES AMiciQVE POSVERVNT " (That examples of 
manhood may ever flourish among you, comrades 
and friends have reared this memorial) ; and over 
the south entrance is inscribed, " memoriae eorvm 

QVI HIS IN SEDIBVS INSTITVTI MORTEM PRO PATRIA 
OPPETIVERVNT : CIO D CCC LX I -CIO D CCC LX V " 

(To the memory of those who went from these seats 
of learning to meet death for their country: 1861 — 
1865). In the gable-ends above the windows round 
the exterior of Sanders Theatre are heroic-sized busts 
of seven great orators — Demosthenes, Cicero, St. 
Chrysostom, Bossuet, Chatham, Burke, and Webster. 
Within the transept are the marble tablets on 
which are the names of 136 of the graduates and 
students of the university who fell in defence of 
the LTnion,"^ and a large tablet, in the centre of 
the east side, above the arcade, inscribed thus : 

"this hall COMMEMORATES THE PATRIOTISM OF 
THE GRADUATES AND STUDENTS OF THIS UNIVERSITY 
WHO SERVED IN THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE UNITED 
STATES DURING THE WAR FOR THE PRESERVATION OF 
THE UNION AND UPON THESE TABLETS ARE INSCRIBED 
THE NAMES OF THOSE AMONG THEM WHO DIED IN 



* See Appendix (III). 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 43 

THAT SERVICE." At the fi'ont corners of the small 
balcony opposite this tablet are the two flags pre- 
sented by the United States government to Doro- 
thea Lynde Dix, in recognition of her work for the 
sick and wounded Union soldiers in the Civil War, 
and bequeathed by her to Harvard. The large 
stained-glass windows over the entrances and the 
walls above the tablets bear words and quotations 
from the classics and the Latin Vulgate, further 
commemorating the patriotic spirit and strong sense 
of duty of the young heroes whose memory is 

" Throned in high deeds, forever and forever, 
That cannot die, and will not pass away! " 

On the west side of the transept is the dining-hall, 
where about iioo instructors and students take 
their meals. The walls are adorned with the por- 
traits and busts of many noted people,"^ among 
which the pictures by Copley and Stuart and the 
busts by Crawford, the father of F. Marion Craw- 
ford, Powers, and French are of special interest. 
The bust of Longfellow is a replica of the one in 
Westminster Abbey. The stained-glass windows at 
the sides of the hall are memorials presented by the 
classes that are thus commemorated ; the great rose- 
window of stained glass at the end of the hall is 
emblazoned with the arms of Harvard, of Massa- 
chusetts, and of the L^nited States. Visitors are ad- 



* See Appendix (IV) for a complete list of the portraits and busts in 
Memorial Hall. 



44 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

mitted to the hall between the hours for meals, but 
are allowed only in the east gallery when the students 
are at luncheon or dinner. Admission to the gal- 
lery is by the door on the west side of the transept, 
near the north entrance. 

At either end of the east side of the transept are 
the entrances to Sanders Theatre, where the Class 
Day and Commencement exercises are held, and 
lectures, concerts, and other entertainments given 
in term-time. The Oedipus Tyrannis^ of Sophocles, 
was produced here in May, 1881, the Fhormio, of 
Terence, in April, 1894, and the Epicoene^ of Ben 
Jonson, in March, 1895. The theatre is classic in 
design, has a floor-space and two balconies facing a 
broad, recessed stage, and will seat about 1400 per- 
sons. To the right of the stage, on a high pedestal, 
is a white marble statue of President Quincy by 
Story, and on the wall at the back of the stage are 
three spaces ornamented with the college seal in 
crimson, black, and gold — three open books bear- 
ing the word " Veritas " on a shield, and the motto, 
" Christo et Ecclesiae.'' On the side walls are 
inscriptions recording the gift of Charles Sanders 
and the date of the building of the structure ; while 
on the wall above the musicians' balcony over the 
stage is this inscription : *' htc in silvestribvs et 

INCVLTIS LOCIS ANGLI DOMO PROFVGI ANNO POST 
CHRISTVM NATVM CIO 13 C XXXVI POST COLONIAM 
HVC DEDVCTAM VI SAPIENTIAM RATI ANTE OMNIA 
COLENDAM SCHOLAM PVBLICE CONDIDERVNT CONDI- 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 45 

TAM CHRISTO ET ECCLESTAE DICAVERVNT : QVAE AVCTA 
lOHANNIS HARVARD MVNIFICENTIA A LITTERARVM 
FAVTORIBVS CVM NOSTRATIBVS TVM EXTERNIS IDEN- 
TIDEM ADIVTA ALVMNORVM DENIQVE FIDEI COMMISSA 
AB EXIGVIS PERDVCTA INITIIS AD jNIAIORA RERVM 
INCRExMENTA PRAESIDVM SOCIORVM INSPECTORVM 
SENATVS ACADEMICI CONSILIIS ET PRVDENTIA ET 
CVRA OPTVMAS ARTES VIRTVTES PVBLICAS PRIVATAS 
COLVIT COLIT : QVI AVTEM DOCTI FVERINT FVLGEBVNT 
QVASI SPLENDOR FIRMAMENTI ET QVI AD IVSTITIAM 
ERVDIVNT MVLTOS QVASI STELLAE IN PERPETVAS 

AETERNiTATES '' (Here in the wilderness and waste 
places, Englishmen, exiled from home, in the year 
of our Lord 1636, six years after the colony was 
founded, believing that wisdom should be cherished 
before all things, established a school by public 
enactment and dedicated it to Christ and to the 
Church. Endowed by the munificence of John 
Harvard and repeatedly aided by the patrons of 
learning both here and abroad, it was finally 
entrusted to the loyalty of its alumni and has 
grown from small beginnings to increasing great- 
ness. Through the judgment, the prudence, and 
the foresight of its presidents, its fellows, its over- 
seers, and its academic council, it has fostered and 
still fosters liberal arts and public and private vir- 
tues. '' Moreover those that have become learned 
will shine as the brightness of the heavens and 
those that lead many to righteousness as the stars 
forever and ever ! " ). 



46 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

Leaving Memorial by the south door, and walk- 
ing to the left along Cambridge Street, we pass on 
the right, in the triangular space bounded by Cam- 
bridge and Quincy Streets and Broadway, the 

Old Gymnasium, a low, octagonal brick build- 
ing, erected in i860 at a cost of $9500, and used, 
after the erection of the Hemenway Gymnasium, as 
a storehouse. In 1894 it was remodelled inside 
and fitted with apparatus for the use of the engi- 
neering department of the university. To the left 
on Quincy Street, facing Memorial, are the build- 
ings of the New-Church Theological School ; the 
farther one, on the corner of Quincy and Kirkland 
Streets, was formerly the home of President Sparks. 
Proceeding along Cambridge Street past the build- 
ings of the Manual Training School and the rear of 
the Cambridge Public Library, we reach 

Felton Hall, a brick and wood dormitory on 
the southeast corner of Cambridge and Trowbridge 
Streets, built by private enterprise in 1877 and 
containing thirty-six suites of rooms. It was 
named m honor of President Felton. Near it, on 
Broadway, is the large new building of the Cam- 
bridge EngHsh High School. 

Going to the left through Trowbridge Street, we 
come out on Kirkland Street opposite the residence 
of Professor Francis James Child, one of the great 
authorities in old English ballads, Chaucer, and 
Shakespeare, in front of whose house may be seen 
the trim rose-garden which it is his delight to keep 




CLAVERLY HALL 




3ECK HALL 



48 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

in order. Again turning to the left along Kirkland 
Street, we cross Irving Street, which leads on the 
right past the residences of a number of Harvard 
professors, including those of William James, the 
eminent professor of psychology, whose brother is 
Henry James, the novelist, and Josiah Royce, pro- 
fessor of the history of philosophy, to '' Shady Hill," 
the picturesque home of Professor Charles Eliot 
Norton, standing among stately trees on the rising 
ground near Beacon Street. Arthur Hugh Clough, 
the poet, visited here in 1853. A little farther 
along Kirkland Street on the right is Divinity Ave- 
nue, a beautiful shaded roadway, with broad paths 
on either side leading under arching boughs to 
another group of university buildings. The first 
one on the left is the 

Peabody Museum of American Archaeol- 
ogy and Ethnology, a large brick building 
erected in 1877 with part of the fund of $150,000 
given by George Peabody, of London, in 1866, for 
the purpose of establishing such a museum. The 
collections in the Museum, which may be seen 
between 9 a. m. and 5 p. m., include mainly the 
implements and ornaments of the aboriginal races 
of America — the mound-builders, cave-dwellers, 
and Indians. In 1891 a special arrangement was 
made with Honduras, by which the Museum was to 
have charge of the antiquities of that country for 
ten years, and in return was to be allowed to take 
one-half of the collection obtained from the ancient 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 49 

cities and burial places of the country. The 
Museum owns the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio. 
Besides the American collections, there are several 
more representing other parts of the world, includ- 
ing the collection of the Semitic Museum, which 
contains manuscripts, coins, photographs, Babylo- 
nian-Assyrian seals and clay tablets, Phoenician 
glassware, and a large number of casts of the 
finest of the Semitic monuments in the European 
museums. Just beyond the Museum, on the 
right, is 

Divinity Hall, a plain, brick structure built in 
1826 by the Society for the Promotion of Theologi- 
cal Education in Harvard Universitv, and contain- 
ing the chapel of the Divinity School, a reading- 
room, and forty-two rooms for students. DiviniLy 
House, a frame structure in the rear of Divinity 
Hall, contains six rooms for students. A little 
beyond the hall stands the 

Divinity School Library, a brick building 
with brown stone trimmings in the Gothic style of 
architecture, completed in 1887 at a cost of about 
$40,000. It contains a faculty room, three lecture- 
rooms, and the library, consisting of about 26,000 
volumes and more than 5000 pamphlets. Behind 
these two buildings is 

Norton Field, a student play-ground of about 
six acres in extent, laid out for foot-ball, base-ball, 
tennis, and other games. Opposite the Divinity 
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Museum of Comparative Zoology, popu- 
larly known as the "Agassiz Museum/' a large 
brick structure which will eventually be extended to 
the Peabody Museum, enclosing three sides of a 
quadrangle and forming the University Museum. 
The so-called "Agassiz Museum " occupies the 
north wing of the great building, which was begun 
in i860 and added to in 187 i, in 1880, and in 1890. 
The funds included two grants from the Common- 
wealth of Massachusetts amounting to $175,000, a 
bequest of $50,000 from Francis C. Gray, of Bos- 
ton, the Agassiz memorial fund amounting to more 
than $300,000, and numerous private subscriptions 
aggregating many thousands of dollars. The en- 
trance is at the north side of the quadrangle, and 
the collections may be seen on week-days from 9 
A. u. to 5 p. M., and on Sundays from i to 5 p. m. 
The Museum and its contents represent the life- 
work of Louis Agassiz and the munificence of his 
son, Alexander Agassiz. The exhibits, wdiich in- 
clude systematic collections of birds, reptiles, fishes, 
insects, and many other classes of specimens, are 
the results of the expeditions made by Louis 
Agassiz to Brazil and the Pacific by way of the 
Straits of Magellan. In the west part of the build- 
ing fronting on Oxford Street, besides lecture- 
rooms, laboratories, ofBces for the curators and 
professors, and the zoological, botanical, mineralog- 
ical, and other special libraries, containing more 
than 24,000 volumes, there is, in a large room on 



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the third floor, overlooking the museum quadrangle, 
the wonderful collection of 

Glass Models of Flowers, made by two 
Bohemian artists, Leopold Blaschka and his son 
Rudolph, who live in Germany at Hosterwitz on the 
Elbe, a few miles above Dresden. They were 
induced to undertake the work by Professor George 
Lincoln Goodale, director of the Botanic Garden at 
Harvard, and the necessary funds have been sup- 
plied by Mrs. Elizabeth C. Ware and Miss Mary L. 
Ware, of Boston, in memory of Dr. Charles Eliot 
Ware. The collection was started in 1887, ^^^ is 
added to twice a year. The models number several 
hundred, and represent sprays and clusters of 
flowers and magnified cross-sections, showing the 
structure of the plants — all so life-like that the 
flowers themselves seem to have been just placed 
in the cases. In the south end of the University 
Museum, so far as at present completed, adjoining 
the Ware Collection, are the 

Mineralogical Collections, including special 
collections of meteorites, agates, and tourmalines, 
gilded models of gold nuggets of extraordinary size, 
and many more unique and interesting specimens. 
Leaving the Museum by the west entrance, and fol- 
lowing the path to the right, w^e come out on Oxford 
Street, opposite Jarvis Street. To the right, on 
either side of Oxford Street, are two more college 
dormitories. The smaller one on the east side of 
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Conant Hall, a four-story, hip-roofed building 
of red brick with buff sandstone trimmings, erected 
in 1894 and containing forty-five suites of rooms 
and three single rooms. It cost $95,000, be- 
queathed to the college by Edwin Conant, of 
Worcester, Mass., who also left $27,500 to the col- 
lege library and $5000 to the Divinity School. 
The large dormitory on the opposite side of the 
street is 

Perkins Hall, also four stories high and built 
in 1894 of similar materials to those used in Conant 
Hall. The building contains eighty-eight suites of 
rooms and cost $150,000, the gift of Mrs. Catharine 
P. Perkins, of Boston, in memory of the Rev. 
Daniel Perkins, Richard Perkins, and William Fos- 
ter Perkins, all members of her husband's family 
and graduates of Harvard. This building occupies 
the east end of 

Jarvis Field, a play-ground of about four acres 
in area, between Jarvis and Everett Streets, for- 
merly used for foot-ball and base-ball, but now 
devoted exclusively to tennis. On the south side 
of Jarvis Street lies 

Holmes Field, another play-ground of about 
five acres in extent, with a fine quarter-mile cinder 
running-track, an excellent base-ball diamond, and 
permanent seats for more than 5000 people. Here 
all the contests in field athletics are held. Along 
the Jarvis-Street side of the field are three college 
buildings. The first one is the 



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College Hospital, a small yellow-and-white 
frame building, erected in 1874 and used on the 
extremely rare occasions when a student in a 
college dormitory is attacked by so severe an 
illness that it becomes necessary to remove him 
to quieter and more secluded quarters. Next is 
the 

Carey Building, a picturesque brick structure, 
built in 1890 with money given to the college by 
Henry Astor Carey. It is used by the members of 
the 'varsity teams, and contains a large circular 
rowing tank, in which the candidates for the crew 
practise in winter in a stationary boat. The last 
building of the three is the 

Society House, sometimes called " the old 
Pudding building,'' a square, gray, frame structure, 

built in 1850 
near Kirkland 
Street, and 
moved first to 
Divinity Ave- 
nue and then to 
its present loca- 
tion. It has 
been put to a 
variety of uses 
as a museum, 
SOCIETY HOUSE a dormitory, a 

society building, and a recitation hall. Returning 
to Oxford Street and proceeding along it to Kirk- 




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land Street, we pass on the left-hand corner, oppo- 
site Memorial, the 

Foxcroft Club House, the home of a co-op- 
erative organization formed in 1888 for aiding stu- 
dents of moderate means to live as reasonably as 
possible. The house was formerly a private resi- 
dence. It now contains a reading-room, a dining- 
room where simple articles of food are furnished to 
order at cost, and eight rooms for students. About 
300 students are admitted annually to the privileges 
of the club. On the opposite corner of Oxford and 
Kirkland Streets is the home of the Rev. Francis 
Greenwood Peabody, D. D., Plummer professor of 
Christian morals. A short distance to the right 
along Kirkland Street stands the 

Lawrence Scientific School, a plain, brick 
structure built in 1848 with money given by Abbott 
Lawrence, of Boston, and enlarged in 1891. It 
contains electrical and other workshops and labora- 
tories, lecture-rooms, and the offices of the school. 
Professor Eben N. Horsford and Professor Louis 
Agassiz were connected with the school when it 
was established, and President Eliot was at one 
time an assistant professor of chemistry there. 
The present dean of the school is Professor Shaler. 
In the rear of this building stands the 

Jefferson Physical Laboratory, a long, four- 
story brick building, completed in 1884 at an ex- 
pense of $115,000, given to the college by Thomas 
Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston. It was designed 




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with special reference to stability, so that minute 
investigations with sensitive instruments could be 
carried on without disturbance, and contains a large 
lecture-hall, a great laboratory, several recitation- 
rooms, a number of small rooms where special in- 
vestigations may be pursued, and a large rectangular 
tower, on an independent foundation and isolated 
from the surrounding rooms, for investigations 
demanding extraordinary stability or a great 
height. The ornate, many-gabled building, with 
dormer windows, next to the Scientific School, is 
the 

Hemenway Gymnasium, built in 1879 at a 
cost of $100,000, given to the college for this pur- 
pose by Augustus Hemenway, of Boston, and en- 
larged in 1895 at the expense of the same generous 
alumnus of the college. To the left of the entrance- 
hall is the space reserved for visitors, where they 
may view the students exercising in the main hall 
and on the running-track in the gallery above. 
Upstairs is the rowing-room, where the crews prac- 
tise in winter, and the trophy-room, where may be 
seen the foot-balls, base-balls, flags, and other 
trophies of Harvard's athletic prowess in the field 
and on the water. The east side of the building is 
largely devoted to clothes-lockers and bath-rooms 
for the students. In the basement there are bowl- 
ing alleys and a cage for practising hand-ball. 
Turning to the right down Holmes Place, just be- 
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Austin Hall, the home of the Law School, a 
handsome building designed by Henry Hobson 
Richardson and erected in 1883 with money given 
by Edwin Austin, of Boston, in memory of his 
brother, Samuel Austin. The materials are light 
buff stone and red sandstone. On the front of the 
main building is the inscription from the Bible — 
"And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws 
and shalt shew them the way wherein they must 
walk and the work that they must do.'"^ The 
graceful beauty of the triple-arched entrance, with 
its flanking turret, is characteristic of Richardson's 
best qualities. Large lecture-rooms with inclined 
floors occupy the two wings of the building, and 
there is a still larger one in the rear on the first 
floor. Upstairs is a spacious, well-lighted reading- 
room with a noble open fireplace, numerous por- 
traits on the walls, and a pleasant outlook upon 
Holmes Field and the Cambridge Common. On 
this floor also is the law library, containing about 
34,000 volumes and 4000 pamphlets. About mid- 
way between Austin Hall and the Gymnasium, on 
the east side of Holmes Place, formerly stood the 
interesting old frame homestead, with a gambrel 
roof and dormer windows, in which Oliver Wendell 
Holmes was born. It was removed in 1884. 
Keeping on past Austin Hall to Massachusetts 
Avenue, and again turning to the right along that 
thoroughfare, a few steps bring one to the gate- 

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way in the high iron railing enclosing the court- 
yard of 

Walter Hastings Hall, another large dormi- 
tory facing the Common. This imposing structure 
of mottled brick, with moulded brick trimmings, 
was built in 1890 at an expense of $243,000, be- 
queathed to the college by Walter Hastings. It 
contains sixty-one suites of rooms, including the 
best appointed and most expensive in any of the 
dormitories owned by the college. The attractive 
church building standing next to Hastings is the 
house of worship of the Epworth Methodist Epis- 
copal Church. Crossing Massachusetts Avenue 
and proceeding along Waterhouse Street, the ideal 
bronze statue of John Bridge, one of the early set- 
tlers of Cambridge, may be seen in the Common to 
the left. The Common was set apart for use as a 
training field in 1769 ; it was the muster ground of 
the Revolutionary Army, and the place where the 
flag of thirteen stripes was first unfurled. The 
fourth house to the right on Waterhouse Street, fac- 
ing the Common, is the 

V/aterhouse House, one of the oldest dwell- 
ings now standing in Cambridge, named after Dr. 
Benjamin Waterhouse, who was at the same time 
professor of the theory and practice of physic at 
Harvard and of natural history at Brown, and one 
of the first physicians to introduce vaccination into 
this country, as well as the first lecturer on natural 
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supervisor of the United States military posts in 
New England for many years, and died here in 

1846. The 
house contains 
a number of in- 
teresting relics. 
Turning to the 
right round the 
first corner be- 
yond this house, 
and going along 
Garden Street 
about half a 
mile, we reach 
the 

Botanic Garden, bounded by Garden, Lin- 
naean, and Raymond Streets. It was established 
in 1805, and occupies about seven acres of land. 
Entering by the Garden-Street gateway just beyond 
Linnaean Street, and proceeding along the curving 
path on top of the terrace, we pass on the right the 
garden, containing more than 5000 species of flow- 
ering plants, and on the left the professor's house, 
built in 1810, the herbarium, built in 1864 at a cost 
of $15,000, given by Nathaniel Thayer, the labora- 
tory, built in 187 1, and the conservatory, built in 
1857. The herbarium now numbers more than 
200,000 sheets, and the botanical library in the 
same building contains nearly 6000 volumes and 
4000 pamphlets. The grounds and greenhouses 



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are open the year round from sunrise to sunset. In 
the greenhouses are extremely fine collections of 
cacti, orchids, and ferns, including a giant tree-fern 
from Australia that is specially worth seeing. The 
garden from early in the spring until late in the 
autumn is bright with bloom and sweet with the 
perfume of innumerable blossoms. On the other 
side of Garden Street, opposite the Botanic Garden, 
is the 

Astronomical Observatory, situated on ris- 
ing ground bounded by Garden and Bond Streets 
and Concord Avenue. The observatory was begun 
in 1844, completed in 1846, and enlarged in 1851. 
Since then several other buildings have been 
erected as the need arose, and the main structure 
has been added to and rearranged. The instru- 
ments now in use include the Bruce 24-inch photo- 
graphic telescope, the largest of its kind in the 
world, the Draper ii-inch photographic telescope, 
an 8-inch photographic telescope, and two equa- 
torial telescopes, the larger of which has a focal 
length of twenty-two and one-half feet and a 
15-inch aperture. Here the astronomical library, 
numbering almost 8000 volumes and 10,000 pam- 
phlets, is housed. The three-story brick build- 
ing behind the observatory was erected in 1892 at 
a cost of about $12,000 to provide a fire-proof 
place of storage for the written and photographic 
astronomical records. These data, which have 
been collecting for about fifty years and are of 



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inestimable value, consist of photographic plates 
and written observations full of consecutive com- 
ments on the heavens and on thousands of single 
stars and their spectra. The observatory transmits 
time signals to different parts of Xew England, and 
maintains a branch observatory and meteorological 
station near Arequipa in Peru. From the observa- 
tories of Harvard here and Kiel abroad all general 
announcements of astronomical discoveries are 
made. Visitors are not allowed to enter the observ- 
atory, as their admission would interfere seriously 
with its work ; but they are admitted to the grounds. 
Entering these by the Garden-Street gateway and 
going across them past the observatory buildings, 
we come out on Concord Avenue directly opposite 
Buckingham Street. 

Turning down the latter thoroughfare, we pass, 
on the hilly right-hand side just where the street 
begins to curve, the dark red, vine-clad cottage that 
Thomas Wentworth Higginson makes his home. 
A rustic gateway leads into the cosy grounds, and 
on the dark green door is a shining brass door- 
plate, on which appears, in old-fashioned characters, 
the name of the author's father, '' S. Higginson, Jr." 
Colonel Higginson's study is on the first floor in 
the wing on the left side of the house as one 
faces it. At the end of Buckingham Street we 
turn to the right, and, on the northwest corner 
of Brattle Street and Riedesel Avenue, we come 
to the 



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Riedesel House, so called because the Baron 
de Riedesel and his wife were quartered in it after 
Burgoyne's surrender to Gates at Saratoga in Octo- 
ber, 1777. For a long time the autograph '' Rie- 
desel '' was visible on one of the window-panes ; it 
was supposed to have been written there with a 
diamond ring by the Baroness de Riedesel. She 
accompanied her husband during Burgoyne's disas- 
trous invasion of New Yorky and wrote a thrilling 

narrative of the 
trying scenes at 
Saratoga. It 
was in her bag- 
gage that the 
German regi- 
ments hid their 
colors, after tak- 
ing them off 
their staves, in 
order to save 
them from cap- 
ture by the vic- 
torious American troops. The original dwelling 
in which the baron and baroness stayed during 
their captivity w^as afterward raised, and now forms 
the two upper stories and attic of the house, which 
was moved a few years ago from its former site 
at the corner of Brattle and Sparks Streets to its 
present position. The older part was built about 
1750. The first house beyond Appleton Street, on 




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the same side of Brattle Street as the Riedesel 
House, is the 

Lee House, a two-story, pitched-roof mansion, 
thought to be the oldest dwelling now standing in 
Cambridge. Judge Joseph Lee owned the place at 
the outbreak of the Revolution. The house was 
erected on an oak frame supposed to have been 
brought over from England about two and a quarter 
centuries ago. The great chimney that rises through 
the centre of the house is laid in clay mortar, 
and the massive beams that support the low ceilings 
of the first-floor rooms are left exposed to view. On 
the opposite side of Brattle Street, occupying the 
west corner of Channing Street, stands the home of 
William Eustis Russell, ex-governor of Massachu- 
setts, a pleasant-looking Queen Anne cottage with 
a small stable in the rear. Almost opposite Gov- 
ernor Russell's is the 

Fayerweather House, a light brown, three- 
story dwelling, built about 1750 and long occupied 
by Thomas Fayerweather. It is chiefly noticeable 
as an excellent example, in appearance and situa- 
tion, of the colonial country-place, and as the house 
that w^as used for many years as a preparatory 
school by William Lilly, a Harvard graduate and 
noted classical scholar, among whose pupils were 
James Russell Lowell, Thomas Wentworth Higgin- 
son, William Wetmore Story, Richard Henry Dana, 
Jr., and William Morris Hunt. A little farther on, 
to the left, is Elmwood Avenue, and a few steps 



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more along this street bring us before the high buff- 
and-white wooden gate, beyond which lies 

Elm wood, the life-long home of James Russell 
Lowell. As we stand 

" here at his gate, 
Where the boughs of the stately elms are meeting," 

we can see " the poet's house in the Elmwood 
thickets," a square frame dwelling, three stories 
high, painted yellow, with white trimmings, green 

blinds, and a 
white railing 
round the roof. 
There are sev- 
eral acres of 
ground about 
the house, at 
the back of 
which are the 
barn and out- 
buildings, apart 
of the old or- 
^^''^°^^ chard, and a 

fine grove of pines. The homestead was built in 
1760, and just before the Revolution was occu- 
pied by Thomas Oliver, the last lieutenant-gov- 
ernor from England. It was subsequently used 
as a hospital for wounded patriots after the 
struggle on Bunker Hill, and later still inhab- 
ited by Elbridge Gerry, a signer of the Declara- 
tion of Independence, governor of Massachusetts, 




THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 65 

and vice-president of the United States, from whose 
name was derived the term *' gerrymander." In 
18 18, about a year before the poet was born, the 
place was bought by his father, the Rev. Charles 
Lowell, D. D. It was from the fireside of this cosy 
old mansion that the poet wrote, in 1868, to Charles 
Eliot Norton — 

" The wind is roistering out of doors, 
My windows shake and my chimney roars , 
My Elmwood chimneys seem crooning to me, 
As of old, in their moody, minor key, 
And out of the past the hoarse wind blows, 
As I sit in my arm-chair, and toast my toes. 

*' ' Ho ! ho ! nine-and-forty,' they seem to sing, 
' We saw you a little toddling thing. 
We knew you child and youth and man, 
A wonderful fellow to dream and plan. . . .' " 

Here most of his poems and essays were written, 
and here he always returned, whether from his 
duties as professor of modern languages at Harvard 
or as the American minister at Madrid or at the 
court of St. James, to sit and dream and 

" hear, as of yore. 
His Elmwood chimneys' deep-throated roar." 

Here, in 1891, he passed away, and his grave is in 
Mount Auburn Cemetery, almost within sight of 
this spot, where he was born. It may be found at 
the right of Fountain Avenue, a short distance from 
the entrance to the cemetery; and just above, 
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marks the spot where Longfellow lies, while only a 
little distance in the opposite direction is the grave 
of Oliver Wendell Holmes. 

Turning to the left into Mount Auburn Street, 
after leaving Elmwood, we pass on the right the red 
brick buildings of the Cambridge City Hospital, 
back of which is the spot where Professor Hors- 
ford declared that Lief Erikson, the Norseman, 
built his house in Vineland in the year looo. On 
the left, almost opposite the main hospital, is the 
large gray frame building of the Avon Home for 
Children. A little more than a quarter of a mile 
beyond this point, on the right, betvv'^een Willard 
and Hawthorn Streets, is 

Longfellow Park, laid out in memory of the 
poet and extending through from Mount Auburn 
Street to Brattle Street. It is controlled by the 
Longfellow Memorial Association, which w-as formed 
for the purpose of preserving this land and the 
view of the Charles River w^hich it opens from 
Brattle Street, together with the laying out of the 
land for public uses and the establishing and main- 
tenance of the small garden at the Mount Auburn- 
Street end of the park. The association has a 
fund of about $15,000, yielding enough to keep the 
grounds in order and to lay by something each year 
for ulterior uses. These uses, according to Colonel 
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who has been a 
director in the association from the beginning, con- 
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time, of a memorial building, of no great preten- 
sions, but adequate to the secure preservation of 
Longfellow's manuscripts, and the various editions 
and translations of his books, should these be 
placed in the custody of the association. Provision 
was made for this building when the park was 
planned, and one or two bequests have been re- 
ceived for that express purpose. East of the park, 
on either side of Mount Auburn Street, stand the 

Lowell Willo^vs, so called because of the 
strong interest in them shown by James Russell 
Lowell, who made them the central theme of his 
fine poem, " Under the Willows " : 

" I care not how men trace their ancestry, 
To ape or Adam ; let them please their whim ; 
But I in June am midway to believe 
A tree among my far progenitors, 
Such sympathy is mine with all the race. . . . 
Among them one, an ancient willow, spreads 
Eigh-t balanced limbs, springing at once all round 
His deep-ridged trunk with upward slant diverse. . . • 

— This tree . . . 
Is one of six, a wdllow Pleiades, 
The seventh fallen, that lean along the brink 
Where the steep upland dips into the marsh. . . . 
This willow is as old to me as life ; 
And under it full often have I stretched, 
Feeling the warm earth like a thing alive, 
And gathering virtue in at every pore 
Till it possessed me wholly. . . ." 

As we enter Longfellow Park and walk through 
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US on the other side of the street, beyond an old- 
fashioned wooden fence and a tall hedge of lilacs, 
Longfellow's Home, which is also known as 
Craigie House and Washington's Headquarters. 
Like that other house in one of the author's best- 
known poems, 

" Somewhat back from the village street 
Stands the old-fashioned country-seat," 

and the path approaching it is broken by two or 
three short flights of steps, owing to the slight ele- 
vation on which 
the house is 
built. It is a 
square, roomy 
looking man- 
sion, painted yel- 
low and white, 
two stories high, 
with dormer 
windows in the 
sloping roof, and 
crowned by a 
white railing, 

LONGFELLOW'S HOME W i t h 1 n W h 1 C h 

rise the chimney-stacks. There are ample grounds 
about it, planted with shrubberies and adorned 
with many fine trees, among which is one majes- 
tic elm of beautiful proportions near the south- 
west corner of the house. Lonrfellow himself on 




70 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

one occasion told how a youthful bard, now em- 
balmed in Griswold's " Poets and Poetry of Amer- 
ica," once visited here, and, tossing back his long 
hair as he stood at the door and gazed approvingly 
on the elms, exclaimed in a deep voice, " I see, Mr. 
Longfellow, that you have many trees — I love 
trees ! ! " " It was," said the poet, with a twinkle of 
the eye and a quietly droll inflection of the voice, 
" as if he gave a certificate to all the neighboring 
vegetation." 

The house was built in 1759 by Colonel John 
Vassall, a rich Tory who abandoned the place to 
confiscation on the outbreak of the Revolution. 
Washington made it his headquarters soon after 
taking command of the American army in 1775, 
and in the room on the left of the hallway as one 
enters Mrs. Washington held her receptions in the 
winter of 1775-76. The opposite room, on the 
right of the hallway, was used by General Washing- 
ton as his " ofiice " during the nine months that he 
lived in the house. Here Franklin and Talleyrand 
and the Duke of Kent and many another illustrious 
person have been guests. In 1791 Dr. Andrew 
Craigie bought the place ; and it was his widow 
who became the landlady of Longfellow when he 
was a young professor in Harvard. Edward Everett 
and W^orcester, the lexicographer, have also lived 
here. Longfellow rented the house in 1837 ^^^ 
bought it in 1843. His study was the room on the 
right formerly used by Washington. Here, among 




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72 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

surrounamgs that are kept unchanged, he wrote 
" Evangeline " and " Hiawatha " and '' Tales of a 
Wayside Inn " and most of the other immortal 
works with which his name is associated. From 
these windows he looked out over the long stretch 
of level fields, in its tranquillity so strongly emblem- 
atic of the complete serenity of his character, to 
where the River Charles 

" slides along, 
Full without noise, and whispers in his reeds ; " 

and here, while the winds of March were blowing, 
his life came to an end. 

*' There is no flower of meek delight, 
There is no star of heavenly pride, 
That shines not fairer and more bright 
Because he lived, loved, sang, and died." 

The poet's home is now occupied by his eldest 
daughter, Miss Alice Longfellow, and next to it on 
the left are the houses of his two younger daughters, 
Mrs. Richard H. Dana and Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp, 
Jr.,- — the three ^'blue-eyed banditti '^ of whom he 
wrote in "The Children's Hour" — 

*' From my study I see in the lamplight, 
Descending the broad hall stair, 
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, 
And Edith with golden hair." 

The third house west of Longfellow's was for- 
merly the home of Joseph E. Worcester, the author 
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THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 73 

along Brattle Street, we pass, next to the poet's 
home, the Cambridge residence of the Rt. Rev. 
William Lawrence, the Episcopal bishop of Massa- 
chusetts, back of which, somewhat to the right, may 
be seen Winthrop Hall, one of the dormitories of the 

Episcopal Theological School, an institu- 
tion founded in 1867, and enjoying many advan- 
tages due to its nearness to Harvard, but not a part 
of the organization of the university. The rest of 
the buildings are on the corner of Brattle and 
Mason Streets, adjoining Bishop Lawrence's hand- 
some place. They form a small quadrangle, open 
toward the street, which at once impresses one with 
a sense of retirement and restful quiet. The build- 
ings are all constructed of Roxbury granite with 
trimmings of freestone or brick ; to the left, as one 
faces the quadrangle from the street, is Lawrence 
Hall, a dormitory partly built in 1873 and com- 
pleted in 1880 with funds given by Amos A. Law- 
rence, of Boston, and containing thirty-seven rooms ; 
in the centre is Reed Hall, built in 1875, 
named after Benjamin T. Reed, of Boston, the 
founder of the school, and containing a library and 
six lecture-rooms ; and to the right, at the back, is 
Burnham Hall, built in 1880 with money given by 
John A. Burnham, of Boston, and containing a din- 
ing-room capable of accommodating more than 100 
students, while in front is 

St. John's Memorial Chapel, a beautiful 
ivy-clad building in the form of a cross, erected in 



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1870 by Robert Means Mason, of Boston, as a 
memorial to his wife and his brother, the Rev. 
Charles Mason, D. D. Above the main entrance, 
at the base of the tapering spire, is the inscription, 
" These stones shall be for a memorial." ^ Near the 
end of the chapel toward the quadrangle is the tree 
referred to by Longfellow in his sonnet beginning, 

" I stand beneath the tree whose branches shade 
Thy western window, Chapel of St. John ! 
And hear its leaves repeat their benison 
On him whose hand thy stones memorial laid." 

The poet once remarked that he never passed the 
grounds of the school and the chapel without think- 
ing of the words of the benediction in the Prayer 
Book, " The peace of God which passeth all under- 
standing." 

Walking to the left through Mason Street, we 
pass, on the corner of Garden Street, the Shepard 
Memorial Church, built in 187 1 by the Congrega- 
tional Society of Cambridge, which was founded in 
1636 by the Rev. Thomas Shepard and others. 
The building is of Roxbury granite in the Roman- 
esque style of architecture. On top of the spire is the 

Gilded Weathercock celebrated in Longfel- 
low's poem, " Maiden and Weathercock" : 

" O Weathercock on the village spire, 
With your golden feathers all on fire, 
Tell me, what can you see from your perch 
Above there over the tower of the church ? " 



*Joshua iv : 7. 




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This huge cockerel was originally placed upon the 
vane of the New Brick Church in Boston when it 
was built, fronting upon Hanover Street, in 1721. 
A fierce controversy that arose at the ordination of 
the Rev. Peter Thacher as pastor of the New North 
Church led to the erection of the New Brick Church, 
and the cock was placed on its spire as a sarcastic 
reflection upon the Rev. Mr. Thacher's Christian 
name. It is recorded that " when the cock was 
placed on the spindle, a merry fellow straddled over 
it and crowed three times to complete the cere- 
mony." For a long while the new church was 
called the ^' Revenge Church.'^ Close by the Shep- 
ard Memorial Church, in the middle of the open 
space formed by the junction of Mason and Garden 
Streets, stands all that remains of the 

Washington Elm, with the iron railing round 
it and the tablet on which is the inscription written 
by Longfellow, telling that — '^ Under this tree 
Washington first took command of the American 
Army, July 3d, 1775." Even the most prosaic heart 
must beat a little quicker at the thought 

" How sixscore years ago, 
Just on this very blessed spot, 

The summer leaves below. 
Before his homespun ranks arrayed 
In green New England's elmbough shade 
The great Virginian drew the blade 

King George full soon should know ! " 

"It was a magnificent sight," wrote Dorothy Dudley 
in her diary under date of July 3, 1775; *' the 




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78 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

majestic figure of the General, mounted upon his 
horse beneath the wide-spreading branches of the 
patriarch tree, the multitude thronging the plain 
around and the houses filled with interested specta- 
tors of the scene, while the air rung with shouts of 
enthusiastic welcome, as he drew his sword and 
thus declared himself Commander-in-Chief of the 
Continental Army. . . . He is a large, man, tall 
and well-proportioned ; his face noble in its sugges- 
tion of strength and dignity and modesty. . . . His 
appearance is one to inspire confidence and love, 
and to make us grateful for the possession of such 
a chief." The minute-men were camped on the 
Common round this tree in the winter of 1775-76, 
and Washington had a lookout built in its branches, 
to which he came day after day to watch the pro 
gress of the siege. On the east corner of Mason 
and Garden Streets, opposite the Shepard Memorial 
Church, is the main building of 

Radcliffe College, still familiarly and affec- 
tionately referred to by many people by its old 
name of the '^ Harvard Annex." It was founded in 
1879 with the object of giving women an opportu- 
nity for systematic study in courses parallel to those 
of Harvard, and conducted, unofficially, by the 
same instructors. A fund amounting to about 
$15,000 was raised, and class-rooms were provided 
in a private house on a little side street called the 
Appian Way. The undertaking was successful 
from the outset. In 1882 the persons chiefly inter- 



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ested in the enterprise formed a corporation under 
the cumbrous title of " The Society for the Colle- 
giate Instruction of Women," and in 1885 the proj> 
erty now occupied by the new college was purchased 
at a cost of about $20,000. Meanwhile a fund of 
about $67,000 had been raised, and it has since 
been increased to a much larger sum. Until De- 
cember, 1893, there was no recognized union 
between the university and the Annex ; but in that 
month an arrangement was made with the President 
and Fellows of Harvard by which they were vested 
with visitatorial authority in the Annex, and it in 
return was to have its diplomas countersigned by 
them and stamped with the seal of Harvard Uni- 
versity. Soon after, in March, 1894, the name of 
the Annex was changed by legislative enactment 
to Radcliffe College in honor of Anne Radcliffe, 
Lady Mowlson, the wife of a Lord Mayor of Lon- 
don. She gave ^100 ($500) to Harvard in 1643 
for a scholarship, which is, so far as known, the first 
gift made to the college by a woman. The main 
building, fronting on Garden Street and overlooking 
the Common, is 

Fay House, a good-sized, dignified structure of 
brick, painted light brown, three stories in height, 
and containing a large lecture-hall, reception-rooms, 
a lunch-room, a reading-room, a library, a botanical 
laboratory, an office, and a number of class-rooms. 
At one time it was the home of Edward Everett, 
and later on it became the residence of Judge Fay, 



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whose relative, the Rev. Samuel Gilman, of Charles- 
ton, S. C, while visiting Cambridge in 1836, dur- 
ing the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary 
of the founding of Harvard College, occupied the 
northwest corner room on the second floor, and 
there wrote for the occasion the song of ^' Fair Har- 
vard," in its title a bit of unconscious prophecy of 
the uses to which the old house has now been put. 
An original copy of the song hangs in the room, 
and in the same frame there is also a portrait of the 
author, and his autograph. The house has been 
greatly enlarged and changed inside since it was 
bought by Radcliffe. First two additions were built, 
costing about $9000 ; then the whole building was 
remodelled, added to, and refurnished at an expense 
of about $30,000 ; and finally the large west wing, 
containing the lecture-hall and several class-rooms, 
was built. Back of Fay House are three frame build- 
ings, one, fronting on Mason Street, used as a gym- 
nasium, and the others, still farther in the rear, 
containing chemical and physical laboratories and 
a lecture-room. As one goes on to the right along 
Garden Street past this modest group of buildings, 
it is pleasant to be reminded by the sight of them 
of the fact that, in the words of George William 
Curtis, " the spell of old tradition which commanded 
Harvard, the ever-young Mother, to bring forth men 
children only is broken forever." Placed about the 
soldiers' monument in the Common to the left are 




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three old English rampart cannon of the time of the 
Revolution. 

" The royal cipher on each captured gun 
Mocks the sharp night-dews and the blistering sun," 

the semblance of a crown and below it the inter- 
twined letters " G. R." (Georgius Rex) being still 
clearly visible. Almost opposite the south end of 
the Common stands 

Christ Church, the oldest house of worship in 
Cambridge. It is a modest frame structure, with a 
low wooden tower in the centre of the front, sur- 
mounted by a 
gilded globe 
and cross. The 
parish was or- 
ganized in 1759 
and the church 
built in 1 76 1. 
For a while, in 
June, 177s, the 
Connecticut 
militia were 
quartered in the 
building, and 

CHRIST CHURCH thC Icad plpCS 

of the organ were melted into bullets. When 
Washington took command of the army, he had the 
troops quartered elsewhere, the building cleaned 
and reopened as a church, and, with Mrs. Washing- 




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ton, attended the first service, which was held on 
the last Sunday in December, 1775. "The Har- 
vard Chime " of thirteen bells in the church-tower 
was given by Harvard alumni when the church 
reached its hundredth anniversary. 

** Our ancient church ! its lowly tower, 
Beneath the loftier spire, 
Is shadowed when the sunset hour 
Clothes the tall shaft in fire." 

So writes Dr. Holmes in his poem on the 

Cambridge Churchyard, which is beyond 
Christ Church on the corner of Garden Street and 
Massachusetts Avenue. Here lie many colonial 
notabilities, ministers, and college presidents and 
professors, keeping ^^the long, mysterious Exodus 
of Death." The land was set apart for a burying 
ground in 1635. Near the middle of the Garden- 
Street side is a small granite monument erected in 
memory of the six men from Cambridge who fell in 
the fight with the British soldiers on April 19, 1775. 
At the corner, just inside the iron fence, is the 

Old Mile Stone, set up in Harvard Square by 
Abraham Ireland, a surveyor, in the early part of 
the last century. On one side of its broken sur- 
face may be read the partly defaced inscription, 
"Boston 8 miles, 1734," and the initials of the sur- 
veyor, "A. I.," underneath. For many years the 
stone was lost ; it was finally discovered by John 
Langdon Sibley, after he had retired from his active 
duties as librarian of the college. It is a quaint 



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memorial of the time when the road to Boston led 
over the bridge across the Charles River at the foot 
of Boylston Street and round by way of Brighton, 

Brookline, and 
Roxbury to the 
"three-hilled 
town." On the 
back of the 
stone may be 
made out a later 
inscription, evi- 
dently cut after 
the building of 
the West Bos- 
ton Bridge, 
which was 
opened in No- 
vember, 1793, and shortened the journey to Boston 
by about five miles. This second direction reads, 
"Cambridge New Bridge, 2^ miles; J794." Ad- 
joining the burial ground on the south is the 

First Parish Church (Unitarian), an unpre- 
tentious frame building painted slate color, where 
for many years the Commencement and other pub- 
lic 'exercises of the college and of various organiza- 
tions connected with it were held. The structure 
was erected in 1833 at a cost of about $12,500. 
Here in 1836 Oliver Wendell Holmes read before 
the Phi Beta Kappa Society his brilliant " metrical 
essay " on " Poetry,'' and a year later before the 




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same society Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered his 
famous oration on "The American Scholar." Above 
the square tower rises " the loftier spire " referred 
to in the lines already quoted from Dr. Holmes, 
who in the same poem says of the two churches, 
the First Parish and Christ Church, 

" Like Sentinel and Nun, they keep 

Their vigil on the green ; 
One seems to guard, and one to weep, 

The dead that lie between; 
And both roll out, so full and near, 

Their music's mingling waves, 
They shake the grass whose pennoned spear 

Leans on the narrow graves." 

Passing on through Harvard Square and along 
Boylston Street, we go by Read's Block, a brick 
dormitory for students, on the left side midway be- 
tween the Square and Mount Auburn Street, built 
by private enterprise in 1886 and containing fifteen 
suites of rooms. Looking to the right down Mount 
Auburn Street, as we cross it, we may see, on the 
w^est side of Brattle Square, the large, four-story 
w^oo^en building of the University Press, the oldest 
printing establishment in the country. Also to the 
right, at the northwest corner of Winthrop Street, 
on the farther side of Winthrop Square, is the 

Pi Eta Club House, a pleasant, two-story 
frame building, painted yellow, with a pitched roof, 
dormer windows, and dark green blinds. On the 
first floor, beside the club-room, there is a cosy 



86 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

cafe ; on the second floor are the graduates' and 
billiard rooms and the library. The society was 
founded in 1866, and formerly occupied rooms in 
Hollis and afterward in Brattle Street. It has an 
active membership of about forty men each year, 
and now numbers about 1200 members in all. At 
the foot of Boylston Street, to the left, just before 
the bridge across the Charles River is reached, 
stands the 

Weld Boat House, a neat, dark brown, two- 
story frame building, with a one-story extension in 
the rear, erected in 1890 with means furnished by 
George W. Weld. It contains a sufficient number 
of lockers and enough room for the storage of boats 
to accommodate about 300 students, and is intended 
largely for the use of men not rowing on the regular 
crews. On the same bank of the river, almost half 
a mile farther down, is the 

University Boat House, a plain two-story 
wooden building, w^th a pitched roof, erected in 
1874 at the foot of DeWolf Street, and devoted 
chiefly to the use of the Varsity and class crews. 
The lockers, a sitting-room, and a bath-room occupy 
the second story, and there is a floor area of 6893 
square feet. The first of the great Harvard-Yale 
boat races was rowed at Centre Harbor on Lake 
Winnepesaukee in August, 1852. The course was 
a two-mile straightaway, and the Harvard boat, the 
Oneida, bought eight years before for $85, covered 
the distance in about ten minutes, and came in first. 




HOLDEN CHAPEL 



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leading her nearest competitor, the Shawmut, by 
four lengths. The prize, a pair of silver-tipped, 
black walnut oars, is treasured among the athletic 
trophies of the university. Crossing the bridge 
over the Charles and continuing along North Har- 
vard Street about an eighth of a mile, we come to 
the 

Locker Building, so called because it is de- 
voted almost exclusively to clothes-lockers for the 
students. It was built in 1894 by subscriptions 
from alumni, and contains about 1500 lockers and 
several shower-bath and dressing rooms. The side 
of the building is toward the street and the wdngs 
enclosing the spacious central court extend toward 
the south. Viewed from the street, with its dull red 
shingled w^alls and dark green pitched roof, broken 
by pointed towers, chimneys, and gable-ends, it is a 
most picturesque looking structure. It stands on 
the eastern edge of the 

Soldiers' Field, another play-ground of about 
twenty acres in extent, presented to the university 
in 1890 by Henry L. Higginson, of Boston, in 
memory of " some dear friends, alumni of the uni- 
versity and noble gentlemen, who gave freely and 
eagerly all that they had or hoped for to their 
country and to their fellow-men in the hour of their 
greatest need — the war of 1861 to 1865 — in de- 
fence of the Republic." The names of these 
** noble gentlemen '' are Edward Barry Dalton, 
Charles Russell Lowell, James Jackson Lowell, 




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90 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

Stephen George Perkins, James Savage, Jr., and 
Robert Gould Shaw. At the suggestion of the 
donor, the field will probably be marked eventually 
with a stone inscribed with these names, and per- 
haps also with the following lines from Emerson, 
which James Russell Lowell selected by request : 

"Though love repine and reason chafe, 
There comes a voice without reply: 
*T is man's perdition to be safe 

When for the truth he ought to die." 

The field is used for foot-ball and lacrosse. The 
expensive wooden stands for spectators formerly on 
Jarvis Field have been removed to this field and 
placed on either side of the part laid out as a foot- 
ball ground. In time all the university games are 
to be played here. 

We have now not only visited all the grounds 
and buildings belonging to the university within 
the limits of the ^' brave old Academic town" of 
Cambridge, as Dr. Holmes called it, but have also 
seen the Locker Building and the Soldiers' Field, 
which, with all the rest of the university property 
that we have not yet visited, are within the city 
limits of Boston. 



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Ox returning to Harvard Square, any electric car 
going to Bowdoin Square in Boston may be taken, 
if one wishes to visit the 

Dental School, which is situated in the old 
medical school building in North Grove Street, a 
short distance from Cambridge Street to the left 
soon after the car has crossed the West Boston Bridge 
over the Charles River. The school, which was 
established in 1868, was formerly at No. 50 Allen 
Street in Boston, but was removed to its present 
quarters in 1883. At first only a four months' 
course was given each year, and the students spent 
the rest of the twelvemonth learning under regular 
practitioners. But in 1875 the course was reorgan- 
ized and made to conform with those of the other 
professional schools of the university. The first of 
the three years' course of study is now the same for 
the dental students as for the medical students. 
The building on North Grove Street, which was 
erected in 1846 on land given by Dr. George Park- 
man, is a three-story brick structure, with a hip 
roof, in the simple style of architecture of the first 
half of the century. It contains a well-appointed; 



92 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

laboratory, an infirmary, and a museum of more 
than 3000 specimens, including 1600 showing the 
pathological anatomy of the teeth, and many other 
rare ones of great value, illustrating a wide range of 
knowledge. Every student is given an opportunity 
of operating at the chair, and has access to the 
museum and dissecting-room of the Medical School 
and to the hospitals of the city. 

Any electric car running from Harvard Square to 
Boston over Harvard Bridge may be taken by the 
visitor who desires to go to the 

Medical School, which is on the southeast 
corner of Boylston and Exeter Streets, to the right 
as the car passes along the former thoroughfare. 
Founded in 1782 in accordance with a plan outlined 
by Dr. John Warren, a brother of General Joseph 
Warren who was killed in the battle of Bunker Hill, 
the school was conducted in Cambridge with the 
other departments of the university until 18 10, when 
it was moved to Boston in order, as the University 
Catalogue says, ''to secure those advantages for 
Clinical Instruction and for the study of Practical 
Anatomy which are found only in large cities." For 
nearly three-quarters of a century it occupied the 
building on North Grove Street, which has been 
already described in the account of the Dental 
School. The present building was completed and 
occupied in 1883. It is a fire-proof structure, four 
stories in height, built of brick, with terra-cotta and 
sandstone trimmings, and was erected at a cost of 




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94 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

more than $250,000, subscribed by the alumni and 
other friends of the school. It contains a number 
of class-rooms, large lecture-rooms, and laboratories 
supplied with every convenience for medical study, 
as well as a museum of anatomy and an anatomical 
theatre, with steep, sloping sides fitted with nearly 
three hundred seats, each one of which commands 
an excellent view of the demonstrator's table. The 
students also have access to the various hospitals, 
infirmaries, and dispensaries of the city. The med- 
ical library of more than 2000 volumes is housed in 
this building. Adjoining the school is the superb 
new Public Library of Boston, fronting on Copley 
Square, opposite the stately edifice of Trinity 
Church, another of the structures designed by 
Henry Hobson Richardson ; the south side of the 
square is occupied by the Museum of Fine Arts of 
Boston. A few minutes' walk southward from Cop- 
ley Square along Dartmouth Street, and then to the 
left through Appleton and Lucas Streets, will bring 
the visitor to the 

School of Veterinary Medicine, which is on 
the corner of Village and Lucas Streets. The 
school may also be easily reached by means of 
either the Shawmut-Avenue or Tremont-Street lines 
of street cars. It was founded in 1883. The 
building is a substantial, three-story brick structure, 
specially designed and erected for the uses to 
which it has been put. It contains an office, a 
large operating-room, a pharmacy, an instrument- 




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96 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

room, a number of box stalls and ordinary stalls, 
dog kennels, work-rooms, lofts, and a shoeing forge. 
Another adjoining building contains more boxes 
and stalls, a large lecture-room, a students' reading- 
room, a museum, a house surgeon's room, and a 
spacious dissecting-room, two stories high, with 
painted brick walls and an asphalt floor. Another 
short walk through Lucas, Tremont, and Ferdinand 
Streets, and Columbus Avenue brings one to Park 
Square and the station of the Providence division 
of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford rail- 
road, from whence a train may be taken to the 
Forest Hills station, close to which is the 

Bussey Institution, a School of Agriculture 
and Horticulture situated near the village of 
Jamaica Plain, which is now a part of Boston. 
The institution is only a few minutes' ride out on 
the railway, and may also be conveniently reached 
by the electric cars running to Forest Hills. It was 
established under the trusts created by the will of 
Benjamin Bussey, of Roxbury, in 1835. His be- 
quest did not become available until 1861, when 
property amounting to about $413,000, including 
about 360 acres of land at Jamaica Plain, was trans- 
ferred to the university. In 1870 the institution 
was established, and the building, a handsome two- 
story structure of Roxbury granite, in the Victoria 
Gothic style of architecture, with a high peaked roof 
and dormer windows, was erected. It contains an 
office, a library of about 3500 volumes, class-rooms, 





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98 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

collection-rooms, and a laboratory connected with 
store-rooms and a greenhouse. There are also con- 
servatories and sheds and a special water supply 
for the school. The entire cost of construction and 
furnishing was about $62,000. 

The systematic instruction which is given in 
agriculture, useful and ornamental gardening, and 
stock raising is meant primarily for students who 
intend to become farmers, gardeners, florists, or 
landscape gardeners, or who wish to qualify them- 
selves for the proper management of large estates 
or the superintendence of farms, country seats, or 
public institutions. A farm is connected with the 
institution, devoted chiefly to the raising of hay, 
which is fed to the horses and cattle taken to board 
there. Constant opportunity is afforded students 
to observe these animals and to study the methods 
by which the fertility of the fields is kept up and 
the structure and operation of the various imple- 
ments and machines for preparing the ground for 
the growth of crops and for harvesting all kinds of 
farm products. The students also have access to 
the large agricultural warehouses, cattle markets, 
and abattoirs of the city, where tools and stock may 
be examined. Flowers, fruit, and vegetables may 
be studied in the various greenhouses, gardens, and 
farms of the neighborhood, as well as at the weekly 
exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Soci- 
ety. In addition, there are a number of fine estates 
within easy reach of the institution, where practical 



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landscape gardening of a high order may be profit- 
ably studied. But by far the most attractive and 
interesting adjunct of the institution to the general 
visitor is the 

Arnold Arboretum, which has been authorita- 
tively described as ^Hhe finest tree museum in the 
world/' In 1870 James Arnold, of New Bedford, 
the owner of the most beautiful private garden in 
his part of the country, left $100,000 in the hands 
of three trustees to be used for the advancement of 
agriculture or horticulture. One trustee was George 
B. Emerson, the author of an able report on the 
trees and shrubs of Massachusetts. He suggested 
that the money should be devoted to founding an 
arboretum in connection with the Bussey Institu- 
tion, which had just been established. An agree- 
ment was accordingly made with the university 
by which 125 acres of the institution's land was to 
be set aside, and the fund left by Mr. Arnold 
allowed to accumulate until it reached $150,000, 
when the work of establishing an arboretum was to 
be carried out. A further agreement was then 
made between Boston and Harvard by which the 
city undertook to construct and care for the roads 
of the Arboretum and to place the grounds under 
police supervision in return for the right to include 
the great outdoor museum in the public park sys- 
tem of the city. It was five years before this sec- 
ond agreement, which is to last for 999 years, was 
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added by the city to the original tract of 125 acres. 
The Arboretum was established in 1872, and in 
1878 the active work of laying it out and construct- 
ing it was begun under the supervision of the 
director, Charles Sprague Sargent, Arnold professor 
of arboriculture in the university, and Frederick 
Law Olmsted, the eminent landscape architect. 

In speaking of the Arboretum and its director, 
the writer of a recent article on the subject says that 
they ^^have acted and reacted upon each other, 
until it might be said that while the man has made 
the place, the place has had its hand in making the 
man, so that the history of one involves the bio- 
graphy of the other." Possessed of a broad public 
spirit, exceptional administrative capacity, and a 
large fortune, Professor Sargent, who is the son of 
a Boston banker, displayed so much ability in land- 
scape gardening while managing the fine estate of 
his father in Brookline that he was asked by Har- 
vard to become director of the Botanic Garden. 
His originality and success in the work that he 
carried out while in this position stamped him as 
the one man to assume the task of managing the 
new-born Arboretum. In company with Mr. Olm- 
sted, he first laid out the plan which has been fol- 
lowed in constructing the great tree-garden. He 
provided for the scientific arrangement of the differ- 
ent varieties of trees as well as for the effective dis- 
play of their natural beauties, and then with infinite 
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sagacity he directed and pushed forward year by 
year the work of developing the wild lands into a well 
ordered and picturesque outdoor museum, sparing 
neither himself nor his wealth in the prosecution of 
this almost herculean task. Besides this work he 
took charge of the forestry division of the tenth 
United States census in 1880, and published a most 
remarkable and comprehensive report of the condi- 
tion of the timber of the country at that time. Since 
then he has also published several volumes of his 
monumental work on " The Silva of North America," 
which has been called ^' one of the most important 
contributions ever made to dendrological literature," 
and has founded the authoritative weekly paper, 
" Garden and Forest," through which the results of 
the researches carried on at the Arboretum have 
been published. 

While the labor of turning the rough tract of 
country ground into a beautiful tree-garden was 
going on, H. H. Hunnewell, of Boston, gave the 
money needed for the erection of the museum, a 
substantial, fire-proof building of brick, two stories 
high, with a hip roof and triple dormer windows, 
situated near one of the principal entrances to the 
Arboretum. In the lower story are two large rooms 
for the accommodation of the specimens of differ- 
ent woods similar to those presented by Morris K. 
Jesup to the American Museum of Natural History 
in New York, and showing their growth, bloom, and 
fruitage. In the second story are the offices, the 



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work-rooms, the herbarium, restricted to ligneous 
plants and containing more than 20,000 sheets, and 
the library of about 5500 volumes and the same 
number of pamphlets, collected by Professor Sar- 
gent with great care and judgment and at heavy 
expense, through many years, and given by him to 
the Arboretum. The collection includes a number 
of rare and valuable books on general botany, den- 
drology, and forestry. 

But the Arboretum itself, which is open to the 
public every day in the year from sunrise to sunset, 
is of course the main attraction. Nowhere else in 
the world is it possible to find another such wonder- 
ful woodland. To the ordinary observer, indeed, it 
may seem much like other wooded parks, pleasant 
to stroll through, but apparently showing only the 
same trees and shrubs and vines that are to be 
found along the roadways and in the woods else- 
w^here. Even these visitors, however, before they 
have gone far, begin to feel the irresistible charm 
of the place and to realize that its rustic beauty has 
in it something that is at once fascinating and 
unique. They may not be aware that they might 
walk for two miles and a half past thousands of 
labelled shrubs without finding two alike, or spend 
days in wandering among the hemlocks and chest- 
nuts and beeches and oaks and maples and scores 
of other kinds of trees without seeing all the varie- 
ties that are represented ; but still, as they proceed 
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io6 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

ing some understanding of the unrivalled scientific 
treasure in which they are privileged to share. All 
the trees of the world that are capable of enduring 
the New England climate are here arranged accord- 
ing to the order of natural classification, from mag- 
nolias to conifers, and so planted as to harmonize 
with the portions of the original woodland which it 
has been found desirable to preserve. There are 
typical specimens of each species of tree, and also 
specimens of its natural and artificial varieties. 
The young trees are raised from seed planted in the 
nurseries of the Arboretum, where all kinds of for- 
eign, as well as domestic, plants are tried and their 
adaptability and usefulness studied in their various 
stages of growth. The most healthy and promising 
are selected and set out in holes twenty-five feet 
square, filled with good earth, and then the most 
thrifty from among these are permanently retained 
by being planted one hundred feet apart in still 
larger holes, filled with, rich soil. Shrubs and vines 
are treated in a similar way in places set apart for 
them, where the earth is fertile and where they de- 
velop in wild and beautiful luxuriance. The origi- 
nal woodland has been carefully and systematically 
pruned and thinned out on a scale never before 
tried in this country with forest trees, and it has re- 
sponded to this heroic treatment by a vigorous 
growth that bids defiance to decay. 

After all, however, it is the picturesque aspect of 
the Arboretum that appeals to most visitors. More 



io8 THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

than all the lore that may be learned about forest 
and underwood, they love the charm that is felt in 
wandering at will through the winding paths and 
roadways between the borders of flowering shrubs 
or wilding roses and honeysuckles, or along the 
by-paths under the stately hemlocks or French pop- 
lars or English oaks or amid the Japanese bamboos. 
At the north end a winding driveway leads to the 
top of the Outlook, a hill from which one may ob- 
tain a commanding view of the surrounding country 
with its nearer groves and meadows and gardens, 
the green fields beyond with the pleasant home- 
steads and tapering church-spires rising here and 
there above the clustering trees, and the whole 
bounded on one side by the distant roofs and spires 
of Boston, crowned by the huge gilded dome of the 
State House, and on the other by the beautiful Blue 
Hills of Milton, defined against the far-off horizon. 
South of the Outlook one may wander about Beech 
Meadow beside the purling brook that meanders 
through it or under the wide-branching elms or 
beeches or red maples along its borders, or may 
ascend Hemlock Mount beneath the thick, dark 
canopy of whispering evergreens that give the hill 
its name. " Here, too," says M. C. Robbins, in an 
exquisitely written article on the Arboretum, '' are 
lofty pines that must have heard in their youth the 
guns and drums of the Revolution, with group after 
group of conifers, — larches, spruces, firs and juni- 
pers, cedars and cypresses, — through which the 




THE WELD BOAT HOUSE 




THE LOCKER BUILDING 



no THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK 

wind softly whispers, and under which the foot falls 
silently upon the red-brown carpet of fallen needles. 
. . . Lovely roses bloom here in glowing variety of 
color, but they are all single. Sweetbriars and 
other climbing roses mount to the tops of great 
poles prepared for them, and fling abroad their gar- 
lands, mating their sweetness with that of honey- 
suckles in myriad varieties. . . . Here native 
shrubs bloom and run riot. . . . The viburnam 
and the elder spread their shining white blossoms ; 
the wild roses drop their pink petals undisturbed ; 
the yellow of broom and the deep tones of the wild 
geranium are to be seen in their season ; while the 
goldenrod and aster glorify the autumn with gold 
and purple. ... Here the wild rhododendrons and 
azaleas flourish, and the sculpturesque laurel opens 
its exquisite cups ; nor can any garden of exotics 
show more lovely and fragrant blossoms for its 
adorning than hundreds of the native children of our 
barren soil. . . . Foreign parks may have their 
sophisticated grace, but in the Arboretum we find 
the familiar charm of the roadsides of our child- 
hood, of the woods in which w^e sought for flowers, 
or whipped the chestnuts for their prickly fruitage. 
It is the dear New England that we love, at times 
with its asperities, its sternness, and its wintry 
gloom, but also with its wealth of spring blossom, 
its summer cheer, its autumn harvest of nuts and 
fruits, and its splendid glow of color. And as our 
stately elms are nearer to our hearts than any palm 



THE HARVARD GUIDE-BOOK HI 

or magnolia of more sun-baked regions, so this 
woodland park, with its tangled roadsides, its cop- 
pices of oak and maple and beech, its hills dark 
with evergreens, or shining with the white stems of 
birches amid their light and quivering foliage, 
seems to catch and hold the New England of our 
early love forever." 

Neither this generation nor those immediately 
succeeding it may hope to behold the Arnold Arbor- 
etum as it is destined to be when the great scheme, 
of which the foundations have been so deeply and 
broadly laid by Professor Sargent and his co-work- 
ers, has finally reached its fullest scope. But in 
learning that " a thousand years of possession have 
been provided for," and that only in centuries to 
come will this great work be enjoyed in all its 
rounded completeness, even tlie casual visitor must 
share something of the feeling that comes to the sons 
of " Fair Harvard " if, with them, he happens to 
reflect on the fact that the development of the 
Arboretum within that broad limit of time will in all 
likelihood only be commensurate with the growth of 
the '• Mother, peerless, immortal," whose children 
of that far-distant generation will find her then, as 
now, " still young and still fair." 



APPENDIX 



The names and terms of service of the Presidents of Har- 
vard College from its founding to the present day are as 
follows : 



Henry Dunster 
Charles Chauncy 
Leonard Hoar 
Urian Oakes 
John Rogers . 
Increase Mather 
Samuel Willard 
John Leverett 
Benjamin Wadsworth 
Edward Holyoke 
Samuel Locke 
Samuel Langdon 
Joseph Willard 
Samuel Webber 
John Thornton Kirkland 
Josiah Quincy 
Edward Everett 
Jared Sparks , , 
James Walker 
Cornelius Conway Felton 
Thomas Hill . 
Charles William Eliot 



1640-1654 
1 654-1 67 1 
1672-1674 
I 67 5-1 68 I 
1682-1684 
1685-1701 
1701-1707 
1708-1724 
1725-1736 
1737-1769 

1770-1773 
1774-1780 
1781-1804 
1806-1810 
1810-1828 
1829-1845 
1846-1849 
1849-1853 
1853-1860 
1860-1862 
1862-1868 
1869- 



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APPENDIX 



II 



The number of officers, teachers, and students connected 
with the university in the last year is as follows : 



President and Fellows .... 

Overseers ....... 

Teachers ...... 

Preachers ...... 

Curators and Library Officers 
Proctors and Other Officers 

Total number of Officers and Teachers, 



Students : 

College .... 

Scientific School 

Graduate School 

Divinity School . . 

Law School 

Medical School 

Dental School 

School of Veterinary Medicine 

Bussey Institution 

Summer School 

Total number of Students 



6 

32 

337 

5 

13 
40 



1667 
308 

258 

50 
404 

454 
80 
62 
12 

493 



433 



3788 



Grand total of Officers, Teachers, and Students, 4221 



III 



In the following table the number of Harvard men engaged 
in the service of the United States during the War of 
the Rebellion is given in the first column of figures, and the 
number of those who lost their lives in that service is given 
in the second column of figures : 



APPENDIX 



IIS 



College . 626 95 

Medical School 382 15 

Law School ...... 163 19 

Scientific School ...... 34 6 

Divinity School ...... 25 2 

Astronomical Observatory .... 2 i 

Total 1232 138 



IV 



The list of the portraits and busts in Memorial Hall is as 
follows, beginning on the left of the main entrance to the 
dining-hall : 



Portraits 
Howard D wight 
Wilder Dwight 
William Ames 
Zedekiah Sanger 
Peter Bours 
John Lovell 
Benjamin Franklin 
George W^ashington 
Samuel Adams 
Josiah Quincy 
John Quincy Adams 

Bushrod Washington 
George Washington 
George Washington 
Charles Francis Adams 
Christopher Gore 
Thomas Palmer 
John Albion Andrew 
George Bancroft 
James Grahame 



Birth and Death 
1837-1863 
1833-1862 
1576-1633 
1748-1820 
1726-1762 
1708-1778 
I 706-1 790 
1732-1799 
1722-1803 
1772-1864 
1767-1848 

1759-1829 
1732-1799 
1732-1799 
1807-1886 
1758-1827 
1743-1820 
1818-1867 
1800-1891 
1790-18 42 



Artists 
S. W. Rowse 
Eastman Johnson 

Edwd. E. Simmons 

Blackburn 

N. Smybert 

E. Savage 
J. S. Copley 
W. Page 

G. Stuart (head) 
T. Sully (body) 

[Porumidi 
Copy f'm Peale by 
J. Trumbull 
W. M. Hunt 
J. Trumbull 
G. S. Newton 
D. Cobb 
Richter 
G. P. A. Healy 



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APPENDIX 



Portraits 



Birth and Death 



Joseph Tuckerman 1778- 

Ezekial Hersey 1708- 

Fisher Ames 1758- 

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar 1816- 

John Marshall 1755" 

Samuel Dexter 1726- 

Robert Gould Shaw 1837- 
Joseph Stevens Buckminster 1784- 

John McLean 1761- 

Samuel Gilman 1791- 

Benjamin Franklin • 1706- 



1840 
1770 
1808 
.1895 

1835 
1810 
1863 
-1812 
1823 
1858 
-1790 



Samuel Eliot 1739-1820 

John Caspar Spurzheim 1776-1832 

John Adams 1735-1826 
John Adams (in court dress) 1735-1826 

Benjamin Colman 1 676-1 747 

Gurdon Saltonstall 1856-1878 

Sir Richard Saltonstall 1 586-1 658 

Samuel Rogers 1763-1855 

Thomas Hubbard 1702-17 73 

Charles Greeley Loring 1794-1867 

Charles Devens 1820-1891 

Benjamin Wadsworth 1 669-1 737 

Charles Chauncy 1 599-1672 

Charles Chauncy 1 705-1 787 

John Lowell 1 769-1840 

Edward Holyoke 1 689-1 769 

John Winthrop 1 587-1649 

John Winthrop 1 587-1649 

Thomas Hollis 1 659-1 731 

Samuel Cooper Thacher 1785-1818 

Joseph Story 1779-1845 



Artists 

F. Alexander 
J. Greenwood 

G. Stuart 

F. H. Tompkins 

J. Frothingham 

W. Page 

Copy f'm G. Stuart 

W. Dunlap 

Alvan Fisher 

Copy f'm G. D. 
Leslie by Cham- 
be rlyn 

Copy f'm G. Stuart 
by G. P. A. Healy 

Alvan Fisher 

J. Trumbull 

J. S. Copley 

J. Smybert 

Copy by C. Osgood 
C. Harding 
J. S. Copley 

Fred'k P. Vinton 



[burn by Lazarus 
Copy from Black- 
J. S. Copley 

Copy f'm VanDyck 

G. S. Newton 
G. Stuart 



APPENDIX 



117 



Portraits Birth and Death 

John Lowell 1 743-1802 

Amos A. Lawrence 18 14-1886 

James Russell Lowell 1819-189T 

John Thornton Kirkland 1 770-1 840 

Mrs. Nathaniel Appleton 1701-1771 

Thomas Wren Ward 1786-18 58 

Mrs. Thomas Boylston -i774 

Nathaniel Appleton 1 693-1 784 

Samuel Willard 1 640-1 707 

Nicholas Boylston 17 16-177 1 

Edward Everett 1794-1865 

Thomas Hancock 1 703-1 764 

Guido Bentivoglio 1 579-1644 

Samuel Cooper 1725-1783 

Tyler Bigelow 1801-1865 

Nicholas Boylston 1716-1771 
Benjamin Thompson (Count 1753-1814 

Rumford) 

George Whitefield 17 14-1770 

James Walker 1794-1874 

John Pierce 1773-1849 

Thomas Boylston 17 21-1798 

Francis W. P. Greenwood 1 787-1 843 

George Gordon 1 784-1860 

Edward Tyrrel Channing 1 791-1856 

Cornelius Conway Felton 1807-1862 

Samuel Appleton 1766-18 53 

Henry Ware 1 764-1845 

Israel Munson 1 767-1 844 

Henry Flynt 1 676-1 760 

William S tough ton 1 632-1 701 

Walter Hastings -1879 R* Hinckley 



Artists 

Eastman Johnson 
Anna Lea Merritt 
Copy f *m G. Stuart 

by Whitfield 
J. S. Copley 
W. Page 
J. S. Copley 
J. S. Copley 

J. S. Copley 
Bass Otis 
J. S. Copley 
Copy f'm VanDyck 

by J. Smybert 
J. S. Copley 

J. S. Copley 
Copyf'm Kellerho- 
fer by W. Page 

W. Hunt 
E. Mooney 
J. S. Copley 
J. H. Hay ward 
C. Harding 
G. P. A. Healy 
J. Ames 
G. S. Newton 

C. Harding 



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APPENDIX 



Busts Birth and Death 

Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 

James Russell Lowell 1819-1891 

Christopher Gore 17 58-1827 

John Parker, Jr. 1 783-1 844 

George Hayward 1 791-1863 

John Farrar 1780-1853 

Charles Sumner 1811-1873 

Samuel Appleton 1 766-1853 

Benjamin Bussey 1758-1842 

Charles Russell Lowell 1835-1864 

William Francis Bartlett 1840-187 6 

John Pierce 1 773-1849 

Joseph Story 1779-184 5 

John Thornton Kirkland 1 770-1840 

Josiah Quincy 1772-1864 

Edward Everett 1 794-1865 

Jared Sparks 1789-1866 

James Walker 1 794-1874 

Cornelius Conway Felton 1807-1862 
Henry Wadsworth Longfel- 
low 

John Gorham Palfrey 



Sculptors 

D. C. French 
H. Powers 
Miss L. Lander 
H. Powers 

R. S. Greenough 
H. Powers 

E. A. Brackett 
H. Greenough 
S. V. Clevenger 
D. C. French 
D. C. French 
T. A. Carew 
W. W. Story 
T. A. Carew 

T. Crawford 
S.V. Clevenger, fin- 
ished by H. Powers 
H. Powers 
H. Dexter 
H. Dexter 



1807-1882 T. Brock 
1 796-1 88 1 (Bass-relief) 



CLOISTER 



Edward Everett 
James Walker 
Edward A. Wild 



1794-1865 
1794-1874 
1825-1891 



H. Powers (statue) 
Bronze bust 
Memorial tablet 



GALLERY 



St. Christopher 



Painted by C. P. Cranch 



Portraits 
Charles William Eliot 
George Frisbie Hoar 
Rutherford Birchard Hayes 
Thomas Hollis 
Samuel Oilman 
Earl Percy 
James Walker 
James Martineau 



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119 


^ERSEERS' ROOM 




Birth and Death 


Artists 


1834- 


W. Page 


1826- 


Fred'k P. Vinton 


ayes 1822-1894 


William H. Chase 


1659-1731 




1791-1858 


(See page 80) 


-1817 




1794-1874 


Crayon by Cheney 


1805- 


Engraving after G. 



F.Watts's painting 



V 



Of the eighteen large side windows in Memorial Hall, nine 
on each hand, fifteen are now filled with harmonious and 
beautiful memorial designs in stained glass. The donors, 
the designers, and the subjects of these fifteen windows, be- 
ginning at the left on entering from the transept and passing 
round the hall, are as follows : 



WINDOWS ON THE SOUTH SIDE 

1. Unfilled. 

2. Presented by the Class of 1859. The design, by John 
La Farge, of New York, in consultation with Henry Hobson 
Richardson, a member of the class, represents " Cornelia, the 
Mother of the Gracchi," at the familiar moment when she 
called her two sons, Tiberius and Caius, to her side, and said 
to the noble Roman lady who had been boastfully display- 
ing her numerous ornaments, ''These are my jewels" — 
words which appear in the original Latin below the panel 
showing Cornelia and her two boys facing the reclining fig- 
ure of the Roman lady in the other panel. The meaning 
behind the design is, of course, that Harvard, the majestic 
Mother, may also point to her sons who fell in the Great 
War and say, like the noble matron of old, '' These are my 
jewels." 



I20 APPENDIX 

3. Presented by the family of Rear- Admiral Charles 
Henry Davis, U. S. N., a member of the Class of 1825, in 
memory of his achievements in the Civil War as fleet-captain 
of the expedition which fought the battle of Port Royal and 
as commander of the Mississippi flotilla which captured 
Memphis and Fort Pillow. His energy and daring as a 
naval commander are appropriately recognized by the selec- 
tion of Christopher Columbus and the great English admiral, 
Robert Blake, as the figures for the panels of the window. 
These two famous seamen are represented as standing on the 
quarter-decks of their flag-ships with the blue sea forming 
the background. The window was designed by H. Holliday 
and was made in London. 

4. Presented by the Class of 1844. The design, also by 
H. Holliday, represents the figures of Dante and Chaucer. 
The window was made in London. 

5. Presented by the Class of 1857. The two figures of 
Sir Philip Sidney and Epaminondas, representing respec- 
tively the spirit of chivalry and the spirit of patriotism, were 
chosen by the New York artist, who furnished the design, 
as illustrating the character of the scholar and the soldier in 
history. The two scenes under the figures show respectively 
the dying Sir Philip giving the flask of wine to the wounded 
soldier at the battle of Zutphen, with the immortal remark, 
'* Thy necessity is yet greater than mine," and the youthful 
Grecian warrior receiving his buckler from his high-spirited 
mother with the heroic injunction, "Return with thy shield 
or on it." 

6. Presented by the Class of i860. The design is by 
John La Farge, of New York, and represents a stirring bat- 
tle-scene of ancient times — a young knight in armor leading 
a headlong charge up a declivity against the hidden foe. It 
typifies the dashing spirit of the Seniors of i860, which 
impelled them to throw aside their text-books at the first call 
to arms and hurry to the battle-field in defence of the Union. 
The whole design derives a peculiar significance from the 



APPENDIX 12 1 

fact that right under the window hangs a portrait of Colonel 
Robert Gould Shaw, a member of the class, who was killed 
at the assault of Fort Wagner on July i8, 1863, after having 
gained the parapet of the work at the head of his regiment, 
which led the advance in that fiery charge. 

7. Presented by the Class of 1877. The figures of Charle- 
magne and Sir Thomas More are shown in the design, which 
is the work of William J. McPherson, of Boston. 

8. Presented by the Class of 1854. The figures repre- 
sented in the design, which was made by Frederic Crownin- 
shield, of Boston, are those of Sophocles and Shakespeare. 

9. Unfilled. 

WINDOWS OF THE NORTH SIDE 

10. Presented by the Class of 1875, ^^^ known as the 
♦* French Discoverers' Window." The figures shown are 
those of La Salle, with the coat-of-arms of France in the 
space below, and Marquette, with the seal of the Society of 
Jesus, to which he belonged, underneath ; and they typify 
the spirit of adventure and religious zeal which so strikingly 
marked the early French explorers of the Great West. The 
window, which was designed by Charles E. Mills, of Boston, 
had its first encouragement through the approval of the late 
historian, Francis Parkman. The likenesses of La Salle and 
Marquette, furnished by him through correspondence with 
French historiographers, were carefully followed. The win- 
dow also has the added distinction of being the only one in 
the hall in which no opalescent (American) glass has been 
employed. 

11. Unfilled. 

12. Presented by the Class of 1861. Frank D. Millet, of 
New York, designed the window, which represents the two 
typical figures of a young mediaeval student and a red-cross 
crusader, under which are respectively depicted a scene in a 
class-room of the middle ages and a mailed knight charging, 
lance in rest, on the foe. 



122 APPENDIX 

13. Presented by the Class of 1858. The design repre- 
sents John Hampden and Leonidas, as typical of the heroism 
which springs from love of country and singleness of pur- 
pose. Under the figures are the following inscriptions, taken 
respectively from the writings of James Jackson Lowell and 
Henry Lyman Patten, both of them heroic and lamented 
members of the class who died in the Civil War: "Died 
for the cause of civilization and law, and the self-restrained 
freedom which is their result ; " "As for the chances of life 
or death, neither is welcome without honor or duty, — either 
is welcome in the path of honor and duty." 

14. Presented by the Class of 1863. The design, by 
Frederic Crowninshield, of Boston, shows the " Parting of 
Hector from Andromache and Astyanax " on the causeway, 
outside the Scaean gates, leading down to the plain of Troy, 
which forms the background, with the river Scamander wind- 
ing through it to the Hellespont, and on the horizon a 
glimpse of the blue Aegean Sea, from which rise the moun- 
tains of Samothrace and Imbros. 

15. Presented by the Class of 1880. The design is by 
John La Farge, of New York, and shows Virgil in a histori- 
cal costume and characteristic attitude, and Homer in drap- 
ery arranged like that of a son of Jove, in reference to his 
uncertain but divine origin, and his being the fountain and 
type of all classical poetry. 

16. Presented by the Class of 1879. Frederic Crownin- 
shield, of Boston, designed the window, which shows Pericles 
standing on the Bema at Athens addressing the Athenian 
people, and Leonardo da Vinci, not as an old man, but as a 
youth, pacing the streets of Florence. 

17. Presented by the Class of 1878. The designer was 
Frank D. Millet, of New York. The figures are those of 
Dr. Joseph Warren, a graduate of the Class of 1759, and 
John Eliot, " the apostle to the Indians." The former, who 
was chairman of the committee that adopted the Suffolk 
Resolves, is depicted at the battle of Bunker Hill, musket in 



APPENDIX 123 

hand, where he fell in defence of the Resolves while acting as 
a volunteer, although he held the commission of a major-gen- 
eral. Underneath the figures are two scenes — one showing 
Warren presiding over the meeting of the committee at which 
the Resolves were read and adopted, and the other Eliot 
preaching to a group of Indians. The two figures represent 
men who were closely identified with the history of Massachu- 
setts, and who were typical of two of the learned professions 
and of the two greatest movements that led to the formation 
of the Commonwealth. 

18. Presented by the Class of 1874. Edward E. Simmons, 
of New York, made the design. The subject, which is "The 
Reconciliation of Themistocles and Aristides " on the night 
before the battle of Salamis, was chosen both because of the 
importance of the reconciliation of the North and the South 
at the close of the Civil War, and because the time of the 
graduation of the class made the subject an appropriate one. 
The noble words of Aristides, uttered after he had passed 
through the enemy's lines at the risk of his life in order to 
find his old antagonist and effect a reconciliation with him, 
are inscribed in the original Greek at the base of the window : 
" Our rivalry now and hereafter must be only in devotion to 
our country's good." 



INDEX 



PAGE 

Advocate, The Harvard 30 

''Agassiz Museum " 50 

Agriculture and Horticulture, School of . . . 96 

"Annex, The Harvard *' 78 

Appleton Chapel ....... 36 

Arnold Arboretum . . . . . . .100 

Art Museum, Fogg 38 

Astronomical Observatory ...... 60 

Austin Hall (Law School) 57 

Avon Home 66 

Baptist Church, Old Cambridge . . . . 31 

Beck Hall 30 

Bell, The College 11 

Boat House, University ...... 86 

Boat House, Weld 86 

Botanic Garden ...;.... 59 

Boylston Hall 21 

Bridge, Statue of John . . . . . . • 5^ 

Burnham Hall . . . . . . . . 'j'i^ 

Bursar's Office, The . . . . . . .27 

Bussey Institution . 96 

Cambridge City Hall 4 

Cambridge Churchyard ...... 83 

Cambridge English High School . . . . 4» 46 

Cambridge Manual Training School . . . . 4, 46 

Cambridge Public Library 4j 46 



126 



INDEX 



Cambridge-Street Gate, The 

Cannon on the Cambridge Common 

Carey Building .... 

Chapel, Appleton . 

Chapel, Holden 

Chapel, St. John's Memorial 

Child, Home of Professor F. J. 

Christ Church 

Class Day, A Description of 

Class Day Tree, The 

Claveriy Hall .... 

College Bell, The . 

College, Early History of the 

College Grounds, To Reach the 

College Hospital 

College House 

College Publications . 

College Pump, The 

Colonial Club House 

Common, Cambridge 

Conant Hall .... 

Co-operative Society, The Harvard 

Craigie House .... 

Crimson, The Harvard 



Dana House .... 
Dane Hall .... 
Dental School .... 
Dining Hall, Memorial . 
Divinity Hall .... 
Divinity House 
Divinity School Library 

Early History of the College 
Elmwood ..... 
English High School, Cambridge 
Entrance Gate, Main 



38 
82 

53 
36 
14 

IZ 
46 
82 
14 
14 

30 

II 

6 

3 

53 
24 

30 
12 

32 
58 
52 
24 
69 
30 

31 
24 
91 
43 
49 
49 
49 

6 

64 

4, 46 

4 



INDEX 



127 



n 



Episcopal Theological School 

Fay House 79 

Fayerweather House ....... 63 

Felton Hall 46 

Fines, Student 38 

First Parish Church ....... 84 

Flowers, Glass Models of . . . . . '51 

Fogg Art Museum 38 

Foxcroft Club House ....... 54 

Garden, Botanic 

Gate, Cambridge-Street 

Gate, Main Entrance . 

Glass Models of Flowers 

Gore Hall ..... 

Grays Hall ......... 22 

Gymnasium, Hemenway ...... 56 

Gymnasium, Old ........ 46 

Harvard Crimson, The . 
** Harvard Gate," The . 
Harvard Hall .... 
Harvard, Statue of John 
Hasty Pudding Club House 
Hemenway Gymnasium 
Higginson, Home of Colonel T. W. 
Hilton Block .... 

History, Early, of the College . 
Holden Chapel .... 
Hollis Hall .... 

Holmes Field .... 

Holmes House, Site of 
Holworthy Hall .... 
Holyoke House 
Hospital, Cambridge City 
Hospital, College 

Indian College .... 



59 

4 
51 
34 



30 

6 

10 

40 

28 

56 
61 
28 
7 
14 
II 

52 
57 
20 
26 
66 
53 



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James, Home of Professor William 

Jarvis Field 

Jefferson Physical Laboratory . 

Lampoon, The Harvard 

Lawrence Hall . 

Lawrence, Home of Bishop . 

Lawrence Scientific School 

Law School (Austin Hall) 

Lee House 

Library, The Divinity School 

Library, The University 

Little's Block 

Locker Building 

Longfellow Park .... 

Longfellow's Daughters, Homes of 

Longfellow's Home 

Lowell, Home of James Russell 

Lowell Willows, The 



52 

54 

30 

IZ 
54 
57 
63 
49 
34 
24 
88 
66 
72 
69 
64 
68 



Main Entrance Gate, The 

Manter Block 

Manual Training School, The . 
Massachusetts Hall .... 

Matthews Hall 

Medical School ..... 

Memorial Hall ..... 

Methodist Episcopal Church, Epworth 
Mile Stone, Old .... 

Mineralogical Collections 

Monthly, The Harvard 

Mount Auburn Cemetery 

Museum, Fogg Art ....... 

Museum of Comparative Zoology, *'Agassiz Museum " 

Museum, Peabody . . . , . 

Museum, The University ..... 



4 

27 

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8 
22 
92 
40 
58 
^Z 
51 
30 
6s 

38 
50 
48 

50' 51 



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New-Church Theological School . 
*' New Gate," The .... 

News, The Daily . . . . . 

Norton Field ..... 

Norton, Home of Professor Charles Eliot 

Observatory, Astronomical 

Old Gymnasium . . . . . 



Palmer, Home of Mrs. Alice Freeman 
Peabody, Home of Professor F. G. . 
Peabody Museum . . ... 

Perkins Hall 

Physical Laboratory, Jefferson 

Pi Eta Club House ..... 

Porcellian Club House .... 

Preachers to the University, Rooms of the 

President's House, The 

Public Library, Cambridge 

Quadrangle, The .... 
Quincy Hall ...... 



Radcliffe College 

Read's Block . . . . . 

Reed Hall 

Riedesel House ....... 

Royce, Home of Professor Josiah 
Russell, Home of ex-Governor W. E. 

Sanders Theatre 

Scientific School, Lawrence .... 

Sever Hall ....... 

" Shady Hill," Home of Professor C. E. Norton 

Shaler, Home of Professor N. S. . 

Shepard Memorial Church .... 

Society House . . . . . . ^ 

Soldiers' Field, The 



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6 

30 
49 



60 
46 

32 
54 
48 

52 
54 
85 
27 
27 
32 
46 



31 

85 
73 
62 
48 
63 

44 
54 
34 
48 

32 
74 

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Soldiers' Monument on the Cambridge Common . 80 

Statue of John Harvard 40 

St. John's Memorial Chapel 73 

Stoughton Hall 18 

Student Fines 38 

Thayer Hall 20 

Theatre, Sanders ....... 44 

Theological School, Episcopal ..... 73 

Theological School, New-Church . . . .46 

University Bookstore 24 

University Hall . . . . . . . .21 

University Museum, ....... 50 

University Preachers, The Rooms of the ... 27 

University Press ....... 85 

Veterinary Medicine, School of .... 94 

Wadsworth House 26 

Walter Hastings Hall 58 

Ware Hall 31 

Washington Elm 76 

Washington's Headquarters ..... 69 

Waterhouse House ....... 58 

Weathercock, The Gilded 74 

Weld Hall 21 

Winthrop Hall 73 

Worcester, Former Home of J. E. . . . '72 

Appendix : 

I. Presidents of Harvard . . . . . 113 
II. Number of Officers, Teachers, and Students in 

Harvard . . . . . . . 114 

III. Harvard Men in the Civil War . . .114 

IV. Portraits and Busts in Memorial Hall . . 115 
V. Description of the Memorial Windows in Me- 
morial Hall 119 



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